We Need New Names - NoViolet Bulawayo

Category: General Fiction
Language: English
Keywords: Africa African Literature Zimbabwe

Written by NoViolet Bulawayo
Read by Robin Miles
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Shortlisted for The Booker Prize 2013

This unflinching and powerful novel tells the “deeply felt and fiercely written” story of a young girl’s journey out of Zimbabwe to America (New York Times Book Review).

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.

“Original, witty, and devastating.” —People

Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
Release date: 05-21-13