We Need New Names by Noviolet Bulawayo
* Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2013* * US National Book Award 5 Under 35 * * Winner of the Etisalat Prize 2014* ‘To play the country-game, we have to choose a country. Everybody wants to be the USA and Britain and Canada and Australia and Switzerland and them. Nobody wants to be rags of countries like Congo, like Somalia, like Iraq, like Sudan, like Haiti and not even this one we live in – who wants to be a terrible place of hunger and things falling apart?’ Darling and her friends live in a shanty called Paradise, which of course is no such thing. It isn’t all bad, though. There’s mischief and adventure, games of Find bin Laden, stealing guavas, singing Lady Gaga at the tops of their voices. They dream of the paradises of America, Dubai, Europe, where Madonna and Barack Obama and David Beckham live. For Darling, that dream will come true. But, like the thousands of people all over the world trying to forge new lives far from home, Darling finds this new paradise brings its own set of challenges – for her and also for those she’s left behind.
Bulawayo’s novel is not just a stunning piece of literary craftsmanship but also a novel that helps elucidate today’s world -- Felicity Capon * Daily Telegraph *
The challenging rhythm and infectious language of NoViolet Bulawayo's emotionally articulate novel turns a familar tale of immigrant displacement into a heroic balladBulawayo's courage and her literary scope shine out from this outstanding debut * Daily Mail *
Darling is 10 when we first meet her, and the voice Ms. Bulawayo has fashioned for her is utterly distinctive — by turns unsparing and lyrical, unsentimental and poetic, spiky and meditative... stunning novel... remarkably talented author -- Michiko Kakutani * New York Times *
Often heartbreaking, but also pulsing with colour and energy -- Kate Saunders * The Times (Saturday Review) *
Extraordinary -- Gaby Wood * Daily Telegraph *
The challenging rhythm and infectious language of NoViolet Bulawayo's emotionally articulate novel turns a familar tale of immigrant displacement into a heroic balladBulawayo's courage and her literary scope shine out from this outstanding debut * Daily Mail *
Darling is 10 when we first meet her, and the voice Ms. Bulawayo has fashioned for her is utterly distinctive — by turns unsparing and lyrical, unsentimental and poetic, spiky and meditative... stunning novel... remarkably talented author -- Michiko Kakutani * New York Times *
Often heartbreaking, but also pulsing with colour and energy -- Kate Saunders * The Times (Saturday Review) *
Extraordinary -- Gaby Wood * Daily Telegraph *
NOVIOLET BULAWAYO was born in Tsholotsho a year after Zimbabwe’s independence from British colonial rule. When she was eighteen, she moved to Kalamazoo, Michigan.
In 2011 she won the Caine Prize for African Writing; in 2009 she was shortlisted for the South Africa PEN Studzinsi Award, judged by JM Coetzee. Her work has appeared in magazines and in anthologies in Zimbabwe, South Africa and the UK. She earned her MFA at Cornell University, where she was also awarded a Truman Capote Fellowship. She was also a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University in California, where she now teaches. Her first novel, We Need New Names, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2013.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780701188047 |
| ISBN 10 | 0701188049 |
| Title | We Need New Names |
| Author | Noviolet Bulawayo |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2013-06-06 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
| Prizes | Winner of Etisalat Prize for Literature 2014 (UK), Winner of PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Fiction 2014 (UK), Winner of Society of Authors Awards: Trask Award 2014 (UK), Winner of 2014 Zora Neale Hurston/ Richard Wright Legacy Award 2014 (UK), Runner-up for Barnes and Noble Discover Award for Fiction 2014 (UK), Short-listed for Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2013 (UK), Short-listed for Guardian First Book Award 2013 (UK), Long-listed for The Folio Prize 2014 (UK), Long-listed for I.M.P.A.C. Dublin Award 2015 (UK) |
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