We Need New Names

NoViolet Bulawayo

Rated: 3.74 of 5 stars
3.74 · 25 ratings · 305 pages · Published: 21 May 2013
We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo
About the Book: We Need New Names Ten-year-old Darling has a choice: its down, or out 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 isnt all bad, though. Theres 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 shes left behind. About the Author: Noviolet Bulawayo Noviolet Bulawayo was born in Tsholotsho a year after Zimbabwes 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, and she is currently a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University in California. Reviews: NoViolet Bulawayo has created a world that lives and breathes-and fights, kicks, screams and scratches, too. She has clothed it in words and given it a voice at once dissonant and melodic, utterly distinct- Aminatta Forna Shatteringly good- Anne Tyler, Good Housekeeping An exquisite and powerful first novel, filled with an equal measure of beauty and
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