We Need New Names, NoViolet Bulawayo
We Need New Names, NoViolet Bulawayo
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We Need New Names

Author: NoViolet Bulawayo

Narrator: Robin Miles

Unabridged: 8 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/21/2013

Synopsis

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.

About NoViolet Bulawayo

NoViolet's story 'Hitting Budapest,' won the 2011 Caine Prize for African Writing. NoViolet's other work has been shortlisted for the 2009 SA PEN Studzinsi Award, and has appeared in Callaloo, The Boston Review, Newsweek, and The Warwick Review, as well as in anthologies in Zimbabwe, South Africa and the UK. NoViolet earned her MFA at Cornell University, where her work has been recognized with a Truman Capote Fellowship. NoViolet was born and raised in Zimbabwe.

About Robin Miles

Robin Miles is a veteran of Broadway, classical plays, television, film, and audiobooks. An AudioFile Golden Voice, she has won numerous Earphones Awards, ALA Awards, and Audie Award nominations.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Rick on December 04, 2013

Hard to say what drew me to this book -- the author's name is just awesome. The cover is eye-catching. The reviews have been stellar. Also, I've long been interested in the painful history of Zimbabwe (once British colonial Rhodesia) since I tried to figure out how to teach this hugely complex subje......more

Goodreads review by Paul on October 02, 2013

A few years ago I was listening to one of those From our Own Correspondent programmes on the BBC. A female journalist was on an assignment in Mali and had got herself completely lost. She drove up to this village the middle of nowhere and a whole crowd of teenagers spotted her and came crowding arou......more

Goodreads review by Moses on August 29, 2013

You may love a book and hate it at the same time. I did, for this one. Why love? Too many reasons, African, Man Booker tagging at it, youngish writer, and a powerful and unique style that is not too easy to forget. Why hate? Because, because, why cram in a million things into a single book? At some......more

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