We Need New Names by Noviolet Bulawayo
This unflinching and powerful novel tells the "deeply felt and fiercely written" story of a young girl's journey out of Zimbabwe to America (New York Times Book Review).
Darling is only ten years old, and yet she must navigate a fragile and violent world. In Zimbabwe, Darling and her friends steal guavas, try to get the baby out of young Chipo's belly, and grasp at memories of Before. Before their homes were destroyed by paramilitary policemen, before the school closed, before the fathers left for dangerous jobs abroad.
But Darling has a chance to escape: she has an aunt in America. She travels to this new land in search of America's famous abundance only to find that her options as an immigrant are perilously few. NoViolet Bulawayo's debut calls to mind the great storytellers of displacement and arrival who have come before her -- from Junot Diaz to Zadie Smith to J.M. Coetzee -- while she tells a vivid, raw story all her own.
"Original, witty, and devastating." --People
Darling is only ten years old, and yet she must navigate a fragile and violent world. In Zimbabwe, Darling and her friends steal guavas, try to get the baby out of young Chipo's belly, and grasp at memories of Before. Before their homes were destroyed by paramilitary policemen, before the school closed, before the fathers left for dangerous jobs abroad.
But Darling has a chance to escape: she has an aunt in America. She travels to this new land in search of America's famous abundance only to find that her options as an immigrant are perilously few. NoViolet Bulawayo's debut calls to mind the great storytellers of displacement and arrival who have come before her -- from Junot Diaz to Zadie Smith to J.M. Coetzee -- while she tells a vivid, raw story all her own.
"Original, witty, and devastating." --People
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 | 9780316230841 |
| ISBN 10 | 0316230847 |
| Title | We Need New Names |
| Author | Noviolet Bulawayo |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Back Bay Books |
| Year published | 2014-05-20 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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