GLORY/ SHORT LISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2022/ AMERICAN FIRST EDITION/ FIRST PRINTING/ SIGNED AND DATED 3/11 (PUBLICATION DATE 3/8/2022) AT THE TUCSON BOOK FESTIVAL

NOVIOLET BULAWAYO

ISBN 10: 0525561137 / ISBN 13: 9780525561132

Edité par VIKING PRESS, 2022

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VIKING PRESS,2022. BOTH BOOK AND DUST JACKET "NEW".SIGNED AND DATED 3/11 TO THE TITLE PAGE AT THE TUCSON BOOK FESTIVAL.SHORT LISTED FOR THE 2022 BOOKER PRIZE.EXCELLENT COLLECTOR COPY. N° de réf. du vendeur 134

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Titre : GLORY/ SHORT LISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE ...

Éditeur : VIKING PRESS

Date d'édition : 2022

Reliure : Hardcover

Etat : New

Etat de la jaquette : Jaquette

Signé : Signed by Author

Edition : 1st Edition.

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2022 BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST

“Manifoldly clever…brilliant… ‘Glory’ is its own vivid world, drawn from its own folklore. This is a satire with sharper teeth, angrier, and also very, very funny.” —Violet Kupersmith, The New York Times Book Review

"Genius."—#1 New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds

From the award-winning author of the Booker-prize finalist We Need New Names, an exhilarating novel about the fall of an oppressive regime, and the chaos and opportunity that rise in its wake.

NoViolet Bulawayo’s bold new novel follows the fall of the Old Horse, the long-serving leader of a fictional country, and the drama that follows for a rumbustious nation of animals on the path to true liberation. Inspired by the unexpected fall by coup in November 2017 of Robert G. Mugabe, Zimbabwe’s president of nearly four decades, Glory shows a country's imploding, narrated by a chorus of animal voices that unveil the ruthlessness required to uphold the illusion of absolute power and the imagination and bulletproof optimism to overthrow it completely. By immersing readers in the daily lives of a population in upheaval, Bulawayo reveals the dazzling life force and irresistible wit that lie barely concealed beneath the surface of seemingly bleak circumstances.

And at the center of this tumult is Destiny, a young goat who returns to Jidada to bear witness to revolution—and to recount the unofficial history and the potential legacy of the females who have quietly pulled the strings here. The animal kingdom—its connection to our primal responses and its resonance in the mythology, folktales, and fairy tales that define cultures the world over—unmasks the surreality of contemporary global politics to help us understand our world more clearly, even as Bulawayo plucks us right out of it.

Although Zimbabwe is the immediate inspiration for this thrilling story, Glory was written in a time of global clamor, with resistance movements across the world challenging different forms of oppression. Thus it often feels like Bulawayo captures several places in one blockbuster allegory, crystallizing a turning point in history with the texture and nuance that only the greatest fiction can.

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NoViolet Bulawayo is the author of We Need New Names, which was a finalist for the Booker Prize and won the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for fiction, and the Etisalat Prize for Literature. Bulawayo grew up in Zimbabwe, and now lives in the United States.