We Need New Names - Hardcover

Bulawayo, Noviolet

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0316230812 ISBN 13: 9780316230810

Publisher: Reagan Arthur Books, 2013

Synopsis

Follows 10-year-old Zimbabwe native, Darling, as she escapes the closed schools and paramilitary police control of her homeland in search of opportunity and freedom with an aunt in America.

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Review:

Shortlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize Winner of the 2013 Etisalat Prize for Literature Finalist for the 2013 Guardian First Book Award One of the New York Times "Notable Books of the Year for 2013 One of National Public Radio's Great Reads of 2013
"Bulawayo mixes imagination and reality, combining an intuitive attention to detail with startling, visceral imagery ... This book is a provocative, haunting debut from an author to watch." - "Elle"

"Nearly as incisive about the American immigrant experience as it is about the failings of Mugabe's regime [in Zimbabwe]." -- National Public Radio
"Ms. Bulawayo's artistry is such that we can't help but see ourselves in that wider world ... Darling is a dazzling life force with a rich, inventive language all her own, funny and perceptive but still very much a child ... It would be hard to overstate the freshness of Ms. Bulawayo's language, with words put together in utterly surprising ways that communicate precisely." ---Judy Wertheimer, "The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette"

One of the "New York Times "Notable Books of the Year for 2013

Finalist for the 2013 Guardian First Book Award
"Bulawayo mixes imagination and reality, combining an intuitive attention to detail with startling, visceral imagery ... This book is a provocative, haunting debut from an author to watch." - "Elle"

"Fans of Junot Diaz, who, as fiction editor of "Boston Review, " published NoViolet Bulawayo's early work, will love her debut novel, "We Need New Names" ...Bulawayo's use of contemporary culture (the kids play a game in which they hunt for bin Laden and, later, text like their lives depend on it), as well as her fearless defense of the immigrant experience through honoring the cadence of spoken language, sets this book apart-on the top shelf." -- Kristy Davis, Oprah.com

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"A deeply felt and fiercely written debut novel ... The voice Ms. Bulawayo has fashioned for [Darling] is utterly distinctive - by turns unsparing and lyrical, unsentimental and poetic, spiky and meditative." --- Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

"Bulawayo describes all this in brilliant language, alive and confident, often funny, strong in its ability to make Darling's African life immediate ... She demonstrates a striking ability to capture the uneasiness that accompanies a newcomers arrival in America." -- Uzodinma Iweala, The New York Times Book Review

Book Description:

Ten-year-old Darling has a choice: it’s down, or out

About this edition

• Publisher: Reagan Arthur Books
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0316230812
• ISBN 13: 9780316230810
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 296