We Need New Names
From the twice Booker-shortlisted author of GLORY
(Sprache: Englisch)
Ten-year-old Darling has a choice: it's down, or out
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Ten-year-old Darling has a choice: it's down, or out
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Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2013, this vivid and provocative novel tells the story of Darling and her friends, who grow up during Zimbabwe's harrowing 'lost decade'. They dream of living in paradises like America, Dubai and Europe. For Darling, that dream will come true, but her new paradise brings its own set of challenges - for her and for those she's left behind.
Autoren-Porträt von NoViolet Bulawayo
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.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: NoViolet Bulawayo
- 2014, 304 Seiten, Maße: 13,1 x 19,9 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: VINTAGE
- ISBN-10: 0099581884
- ISBN-13: 9780099581888
- Erscheinungsdatum: 26.02.2014
Sprache:
Englisch
Rezension zu „We Need New Names “
"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 ballad. Bulawayo'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
Pressezitat
We Need New Names is a "before" and "after" kind of novel, the kind that marks a new beginning, a new shift in the African literary tradition . . . To me, it is a complete novel in terms of aesthetics and politics Mukoma Wa Ngugi The Rise of the African Novel
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