Glory by Noviolet Bulawayo

Glory by Noviolet Bulawayo

2022 BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST

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

From the award-winning author of the Booker-prize finalist We Need New Names, an exhilarating novel about the fall of an oppressive regime, and the chaos and opportunity that rise in its wake.

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.

And at the center of this tumult is Destiny, a young goat who returns to Jidada to bear witness to revolution--and to recount the unofficial history and the potential legacy of the females who have quietly pulled the strings here. The animal kingdom--its connection to our primal responses and its resonance in the mythology, folktales, and fairy tales that define cultures the world over--unmasks the surreality of contemporary global politics to help us understand our world more clearly, even as Bulawayo plucks us right out of it.

Although Zimbabwe is the immediate inspiration for this thrilling story, Glory was written in a time of global clamor, with resistance movements across the world challenging different forms of oppression. Thus it often feels like Bulawayo captures several places in one blockbuster allegory, crystallizing a turning point in history with the texture and nuance that only the greatest fiction can.

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.

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ISBN 13	9780593295595
ISBN 10	0593295595
Title	Glory
Author	Noviolet Bulawayo
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Diversified Publishing
Year published	2022-03-29
Number of pages	576
Prizes	Commended for Man Booker Prize (Novel) 2022
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