Noviolet Bulawayo

Broschiertes Buch

We Need New Names

Beschreibung

Follows ten-year-old Zimbabwe native, Darling, as she escapes the closed schools and paramilitary police control of her homeland in search of opportunity and freedom with an aunt in America.

Autor

NoViolet Bulawayo's story "Hitting Budapest," the opening chapter of the novel, won the 2011 Caine Prize for African Writing. NoViolet's other work has been shortlisted for the 2009 SA PEN Studzinsi Award, and has appeared in Callaloo, The Boston Review, Newsweek, and The Warwick Review, as well as in anthologies in Zimbabwe, South Africa and the UK. NoViolet recently earned her MFA at Cornell University, where her work has been recognized with a Truman Capote Fellowship. She will be attending Stanford in the fall as a Wallace Stegner Fellow for 2012-2014. NoViolet was born and raised in Zimbabwe.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Little Brown and Company
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 208mm x 139mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 295g
• ISBN-13: 9780316230841
• ISBN-10: 0316230847
• Artikelnr.: 39480415

Rezensionen

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