Glory
Click to look inside
World of Books
The feel-good place to buy books
Glory by Noviolet Bulawayo
NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2022 BY VULTURE, BUZZFEED, AND OPRAH DAILY"Manifoldly clever...brilliant... 'Glory' is its own vivid world, drawn from its own folklore. This is a satire with sharper teeth, angrier, and also very, very funny." --Violet Kupersmith, The New York Times Book Review
"Genius."--#1 New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds
NoViolet Bulawayo's bold new novel follows the fall of the Old Horse, the long-serving leader of a fictional country, and the drama that follows for a rumbustious nation of animals on the path to true liberation. Inspired by the unexpected fall by coup in November 2017 of Robert G. Mugabe, Zimbabwe's president of nearly four decades, Glory shows a country's imploding, narrated by a chorus of animal voices that unveil the ruthlessness required to uphold the illusion of absolute power and the imagination and bulletproof optimism to overthrow it completely. By immersing readers in the daily lives of a population in upheaval, Bulawayo reveals the dazzling life force and irresistible wit that lie barely concealed beneath the surface of seemingly bleak circumstances.
The novel's first chapter, Striking Budapest, by NoViolet Bulawayo, won the 2011 Caine Award for African Writing. NoViolet's other work has appeared in Callaloo, The Boston Review, Newsweek, and The Warwick Review, as well as anthologies in Zimbabwe, South Africa, and the United Kingdom, and has been shortlisted for the 2009 SA PEN Studzinsi Prize. NoViolet recently completed her MFA at Cornell University, where she was awarded a Truman Capote Fellowship for her writing. She will be a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University from 2012 to 2014. NoViolet was born in Zimbabwe and raised there.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780525561156 |
| ISBN 10 | 0525561153 |
| Title | Glory |
| Author | Noviolet Bulawayo |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Year published | 2023-02-28 |
| Number of pages | 416 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |