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We Need New Names

NoViolet Bulawayo

Hardcover | Pages: 298 pages

Rating: 3.73 | 17060 Users | 2218 Reviews

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Title	:	We Need New Names
Author	:	NoViolet Bulawayo
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special 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

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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 Reviews

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Absolutely brilliant. This book is sizzling with life. Totally underrated! The easiest five stars I've given to a book this year. NoViolet Bulawayo's novel, We Need New Names, is an extension of her Caine prize-winning short story, "Hitting Budapest", about a girl coming of age in Zimbabwe and the United States of Americaand boy, am I happy that his literature prize exists and that it enabled her to work some magic on her brilliant short story. This right here shows how important literary prizes

My thoughts:- An enlightening debut that takes the reader to Zimbabwe during the Mugabe regime. The subject matter is a bit grim as the novel opens with Darling and her friends leaving their shanty town to roam the finer neighborhoods in search of guava for food. - We learn of the daily routines of the displaced civilians: the adults who neglect children in search for work in the mines and the borders; the games the children play to fight boredom and make sense of the dire futures. - The author

I thought the writing in this book was often lovely, and the author did a good job of allowing Darling's voice to mature as she grew up. I very much enjoyed the insight into Darling's childhood in Zimbabwe and was glad to be able to gain some understanding of the history of this nation. However, overall I felt like the book tried to do too much in too few pages, touching on as many issues as possible, including poverty, oppression, race relations, AIDS, incest, illegal immigration, assimilation,

[revised] NoViolet Bulawayo's debut novel, We Need New Names, is the story of Darling, a young Zimbabwean girl living in a shantytown called 'Paradise'. She is feisty ten-year old, an astute observer of her surroundings and the people in her life. Bulawayo structures her novel more like a series of linked stories, written in episodic chapters, told loosely chronologically than in one integrated whole. In fact, the short story "Hitting Budapest", that became in some form an important chapter in

More like 3.5 stars...the beginning while raw and realistic was slow for me...the second half picked up and was more engaging. Not sure that I would classify this as a novel as the plot wasn't linear but seemed more like a group of short stories meshed together. Also, the character development wasn't flushed out for some of the characters...the pregnant friend, the dying father, the crazy uncle...as soon as their stories began they ended. Enjoyed reading about the cultural, food, family,

My thoughts:- An enlightening debut that takes the reader to Zimbabwe during the Mugabe regime. The subject matter is a bit grim as the novel opens with Darling and her friends leaving their shanty town to roam the finer neighborhoods in search of guava for food. - We learn of the daily routines of the displaced civilians: the adults who neglect children in search for work in the mines and the borders; the games the children play to fight boredom and make sense of the dire futures. - The author

Darling is a dispossessed soul in conflict with everything she ever knew. She grew up in Buluwayo, Zimbabwe, but never really names the country or its leader until in her acknowledgement at the end of the book. In truly picturesque prose Darling shares her memories of violence, pseudo-religious events headed by Prophet Revelations Bitchington Mborro on the mountain, and numerous incidences of hunger, and the joy of their childhood games like 'Catching Osama Ben Ladin", 'Country-game" and "Vasco