We Need New Names
by NoViolet Bulawayo
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Pub Date 6 Jun 2013 | Archive Date 31 Oct 2013
Vintage Publishing, Random House UK | Chatto & Windus
Description
Shortlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize
‘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 isn’t all
bad, though. There’s 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 she’s left
behind.
A Note From the Publisher
UK edition - available to readers in the UK, Commonwealth (excluding Canada) and Europe.
Advance Praise
'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
'An exquisite and powerful first novel, filled with an equal measure of beauty and horror and laughter and pain' Edwidge Danticat
Marketing Plan
Shortlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize
'Shatteringly good' Anne Tyler
NoViolet
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 - but she tells a vivid, raw story all her own
Irresistible
young heroine and child's-eye view; language is a wonderful patois of
surprising clashes and combinations, of English and local dialects, ispronunciations. This gives the whole a lightness, a charm, that
tempers the brutality while also setting it in very stark contrast
Available Editions
| EDITION | Hardcover |
| ISBN | 9780701188047 |
| PRICE | £12.99 (GBP) |
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