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Glory: Booker Shortlist 2022

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Glory: Booker Shortlist 2022

SKU: 9781784744304 Category: Product ID: 395222

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Title: Glory: Booker Shortlist 2022
Author: BULAWAYO NOVIOLET
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 12/04/2022
Imprint: CHATTO & WINDUS
Price: $33.00
Publishing status: Active

An effervescent, punchy, piercingly funny novel exploring the fall of Robert Mugabe from Booker-shortlisted Zimbabwean novelist NoViolet Bulawayo Glory is an energy burst, an exhilarating ride. A bold, vivid chorus of animal voices calls out the dangerous absurdity of contemporary global politics, and helps us see our human world more clearly. A long time ago, in a bountiful land not so far away, the animal denizens lived quite happily. Then the colonisers arrived. After nearly a hundred years, a bloody War of Liberation brought new hope for the animals – along with a new leader. A charismatic horse who commanded the sun and ruled and ruled and kept on ruling. For forty years he ruled, with the help of his elite band of Chosen Ones, a scandalously violent pack of Defenders and, as he aged, his beloved and ambitious young donkey wife, Marvellous. But even the sticks and stones know there is no night ever so long it does not end with dawn. And so it did for the Old Horse, one day as he sat down to his Earl Grey tea and favorite radio programme. A new regime, a new leader. Or apparently so. And once again, the animals were full of hope . . . Glory tells the story of a country seemingly trapped in a cycle as old as time. And yet, as it unveils the myriad tricks required to uphold the illusion of absolute power, it reminds us that the glory of tyranny only lasts as long as its victims are willing to let it. History can be stopped in a moment. With the return of a long-lost daughter, a #freefairncredibleelection, a turning tide – even a single bullet.

Review: Praise for NoViolet Bulawayo: ‘Shatteringly good’ — ANNE TYLER * GOOD HOUSEKEEPING *
Praise for NoViolet Bulawayo: ‘Heartrending . . . wonderfully original’ — MARGARET BUSBY * INDEPENDENT *
Praise for NoViolet Bulawayo: ‘Utterly distinctive’ — MICHIKO KAKUTANI * NEW YORK TIMES *
Robert Mugabe is there in all but name in this striking allegory – an Animal Farm that shows how narratives of liberation and self-determination curdle under a dictator’s power * Fiction to Look Out For in 2022, Guardian *
Bulawayo’s tale of dictatorship and oppression explores the exaltation and downfall of a would-be savior * The 50 Most Anticipated Books of 2022, Oprah Daily *

Author Biography: NOVIOLET BULAWAYO grew up in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. When she was eighteen, she moved to Kalamazoo, Michigan. Her first novel, We Need New Names, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the Guardian First Book Award and the Barnes & Noble Discover Award, and won a Betty Trask Award, Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, Hurston-Wright Legacy Award, the Etisalat Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First Fiction. She has also won the Caine Prize for African Writing and a National Book Award’s ‘5 Under 35’. NoViolet earned her MFA at Cornell University, and was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, where she taught fiction. She currently writes full-time, from wherever she finds herself.

ISBN: 9781784744304
Pages: 576
Edition: 01