We Need New Names

Bulawayo, NoViolet

ISBN 10: 0701188030 / ISBN 13: 9780701188030

Published by Chatto & Windus, London, 2013

About this Item

First edition, hardcover, signed by Bulawayo on the title page, the book has a tiny skew to the binding, light bumps to the spine ends and cover corners, and shallow waving to the fore edge of the text block. Overall, this is a solid, tight and clean, Very Good+ copy in an unclipped, Near Fine dust jacket, which has a touch of wear to the spine ends and corners, and is wrapped in Mylar. Seller Inventory # 209853

Bibliographic Details

Title: We Need New Names

Publisher: Chatto & Windus, London

Publication Date: 2013

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: First Edition.

About this title

Synopsis:

* 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.

About the Author:

NOVIOLET BULAWAYO was born in Tsholotsho a year after Zimbabwe's independence from British colonial rule. When she was eighteen, she moved to Kalamazoo, Michi-gan. In 2011 she won the Caine Prize for African Writing; in 2009 she was shortlisted for the South Africa PEN Studzinsi Award, judged by JM Coetzee. Her work has appeared in magazines and in anthologies in Zimbabwe, South Africa and the UK. She earned her MFA at Cornell University, where she was also awarded a Truman Capote Fellowship, and she is currently a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University in California. We Need New Names is her first novel. In 2013 it was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.