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| Title | : | We Need New Names |
| Author | : | NoViolet Bulawayo |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 298 pages |
| Published | : | May 21st 2013 by Reagan Arthur Books |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Cultural. Africa. Eastern Africa. Zimbabwe. Contemporary. Literary Fiction. Novels. Literature. African Literature |
NoViolet Bulawayo
Hardcover | Pages: 298 pages Rating: 3.73 | 17060 Users | 2218 Reviews
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An exciting literary debut: the unflinching and powerful story of a young girl's journey out of Zimbabwe and to America. Darling is only ten years old, and yet she must navigate a fragile and violent world. In Zimbabwe, Darling and her friends steal guavas, try to get the baby out of young Chipo's belly, and grasp at memories of Before. Before their homes were destroyed by paramilitary policemen, before the school closed, before the fathers left for dangerous jobs abroad. But Darling has a chance to escape: she has an aunt in America. She travels to this new land in search of America's famous abundance only to find that her options as an immigrant are perilously few. NoViolet Bulawayo's debut calls to mind the great storytellers of displacement and arrival who have come before her--from Junot Diaz to Zadie Smith to J.M. Coetzee--while she tells a vivid, raw story all her own.
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| Original Title: | We Need New Names |
| ISBN: | 0316230812 (ISBN13: 9780316230810) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/noviolet-bulawayo/we-need-new-names/9780316230810/ |
| Setting: | Tsholotsho(Zimbabwe) Detroit, Michigan(United States) Bulawayo(Zimbabwe) |
| Literary Awards: | Booker Prize Nominee (2013), Guardian First Book Award Nominee (2013), PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award (2014), Internationaler Literaturpreis – Haus der Kulturen der Welt Nominee (2015), Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Nominee for Fiction (2014) Betty Trask Award (2014) |
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Ratings: 3.73 From 17060 Users | 2218 ReviewsAssess About Books We Need New Names
EDIT 10/09/2013:- Oh boy! This has been included in the shortlist despite my misgivings to the contrary. Heartiest congratulations to NoViolet Bulawayo! Books like this one have me fumbling around for the right approach to review them, because they try to cram in too much within the scope of a regular sized novel and consequently just stop short of resonating strongly with the reader. It's like Bulawayo had a message to give me, something potent and fiercely honest enough to burn right throughThis is a book that really grew on me. It starts off following a group of children in Zimbabwe: Darling, Stina, Chipo, Bastard and Godknows, seemingly innocent children living in a not so innocent environment. As a child, Darling and friends lived in shanty towns in Zimbabwe after Mugabes paramilitary police bulldozed down their homes. They spent their days stealing guavas,getting into mischief and daydreaming about the typical things African kids do- about eating good food and ultimately
NoViolet Bulawayos debut novel has just been added to the long list for the 2013 Booker Prize. A short story of hers called Hitting Budapest won the 2011 Caine Prize for African Literature and became the first of several astounding chapters in New Names. The work feels brave and completely fresh--raw even. The perspective, voice, and language held me spellbound.On Bulawyaos website is a quote from Chinua Achebe: Let no one be fooled by the fact that we may write in English, for we intend to do
4.5 stars rounded up. I had read mixed reviews of this novel with comments focussing on it being disjointed or running through a ticklist of African problems to squeeze in them all. Some have taken issues with the first half of the book, some with the second half. It is the story of Darling; she is born in Zimbabwe and in the first part of the book she is ten years old. Darling and her gang of friends Chipo, Godknows, Bastard, Stina and Sbho, do pretty much what children left to their own
3 ½ starsThe writing was something else! The first 50% that deals with Darling and her friends (Bastard, Godknows, Bornfree etc) was amazing. I absolutely loved it and I think if you have a connection with Zimbabwe or Africa you will probably, like me, have a deeper connection to the story. I saw a lot of hidden meaning in what these kids saw, told and played. They run wild every day in their shanty town, stealing guavas from the rich houses, playing games like Find Bin Laden with no idea what
More a collection of stories and scenes than a straightforward novel but Darling's voice is bold and convincing (stronger in the Zimbabwe-part than after she has moved to the US).
There are times, though, that no matter how much food I eat, I find the food does nothing for me, like I am hungry for my country and nothing is going to fix that.3.5 stars. I loved that the kids in the story were typical kids and just adapted to their circumstances and kept on playing their made-up games. The author definitely has a sense of humour and you can see this in the names she chose for these kids (Bastard, Godknows etc), but this was still a very dark and unsettling book. Darling (the
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