NoViolet Bulawayo Libri

'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' This is the story of Darling, uprooted from her family home by paramilitary police, and living in a Zimbabwean shanty called Paradise. Despite the turmoil, she revels in mischief and adventures with her friends, like stealing guavas from the rich neighbourhood, and singing Lady Gaga at the top of her voice. But when Darling has a chance to forge a different life in America, she realises that this new paradise brings its own set of challenges. In We Need New Names a spirited girl grows into a powerful observer of global identity. Meet ten of literature's most iconic heroines, jacketed in bold portraits by female photographers from around the world.

* Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2013* * US National Book Award 5 Under 35 * * Winner of the Etisalat Prize 2014* * Winner of the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award 2014* * Winner of a Betty Trask Award 2014* '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.

Glory is an energy burst, an exhilarating ride. A bold, vivid chorus of animal voices calls out the dangerous absurdity of contemporary global politics, and helps us see our human world more clearly. A long time ago, in a bountiful land not so far away, the animal denizens lived quite happily. Then the colonisers arrived. After nearly a hundred years, a bloody War of Liberation brought new hope for the animals - along with a new leader. A charismatic horse who commanded the sun and ruled and ruled and kept on ruling. For forty years he ruled, with the help of his elite band of Chosen Ones, a scandalously violent pack of Defenders and, as he aged, his beloved and ambitious young donkey wife, Marvellous. But even the sticks and stones know there is no night ever so long it does not end with dawn. And so it did for the Old Horse, one day as he sat down to his Earl Grey tea and favorite radio programme. A new regime, a new leader. Or apparently so. And once again, the animals were full of hope . . . Glory tells the story of a country seemingly trapped in a cycle as old as time. And yet, as it unveils the myriad tricks required to uphold the illusion of absolute power, it reminds us that the glory of tyranny only lasts as long as its victims are willing to let it. History can be stopped in a moment. With the return of a long-lost daughter, a #freefairncredibleelection, a turning tide - even a single bullet.

Jidada heißt das Land. Ein Land, bevölkert von vermenschlichten Tieren, beherrscht vom stärksten unter ihnen, seit fast vierzig Jahren. Einst brachte er die Unabhängigkeit auf den afrikanischen Kontinent, zerschlug die Fesseln der Geschichte, bloß um ihnen prompt andere anzulegen. Doch nun mehren sich die Zeichen, dass seine Kräfte schwinden. Wer ihn reden hört, wer das Alte Pferd in die Sonne blinzeln sieht, ihn und seinen ganzen verrotteten Apparat, der weiß: seine Tage sind gezählt. In Jidada kehrt jetzt Hoffnung ein: auf eine gerechte Zukunft, auf Wohlstand und Veränderung, endlich ein besseres Leben für uns alle! Aber das Regime wehrt sich mit Waffen härter als Träume, schärfer als Fantasie, tödlicher als blanke Lebensfreude, bis eine Heimkehrerin aus dem Exil alles verändert. Glory ist die brillante Verwandlung unserer Gegenwart. In einer Sprache, die singt und tanzt und springt und schreit, erzählt NoViolet Bulawayo von einer Gemeinschaft im Kampf gegen die Repression. Und fördert beides zutage: Glanz und Schönheit, Horror und Schmerz am Grund der menschlichen Freiheit.