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NoViolet Bulawayo’s new novel is an instant Zimbabwean classic
In Zimbabwean author NoViolet Bulawayo’s new novel Glory – longlisted for the Booker Prize 2022 – animals take on human characteristics.
Through this she explores what happens when an authoritarian regime implodes, using characters who are horses, pigs, dogs, cows, cats, chickens, crocodiles, birds and butterflies.
- Tinashe Mushakavanhu
- The Conversation
Bulawayo’s celebrated first novel, We Need New Names, was a coming-of-age …