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Original Title:	We Need New Names
ISBN:	0316230812 (ISBN13: 9780316230810)
Edition Language:	English URL http://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/noviolet-bulawayo/we-need-new-names/9780316230810/
Setting:	Tsholotsho(Zimbabwe) Detroit, Michigan(United States) Bulawayo(Zimbabwe)
Literary Awards:	Booker Prize Nominee (2013), Guardian First Book Award Nominee (2013), PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award (2014), Internationaler Literaturpreis – Haus der Kulturen der Welt Nominee (2015), Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Nominee for Fiction (2014) Betty Trask Award (2014)

We Need New Names

NoViolet Bulawayo

Hardcover | Pages: 298 pages

Rating: 3.73 | 17060 Users | 2218 Reviews

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An exciting literary debut: the unflinching and powerful story of a young girl's journey out of Zimbabwe and to America.

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.

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Title	:	We Need New Names
Author	:	NoViolet Bulawayo
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 298 pages
Published	:	May 21st 2013 by Reagan Arthur Books
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. Africa. Eastern Africa. Zimbabwe. Contemporary. Literary Fiction. Novels. Literature. African Literature

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Ratings: 3.73 From 17060 Users | 2218 Reviews

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I thought the writing in this book was often lovely, and the author did a good job of allowing Darling's voice to mature as she grew up. I very much enjoyed the insight into Darling's childhood in Zimbabwe and was glad to be able to gain some understanding of the history of this nation. However, overall I felt like the book tried to do too much in too few pages, touching on as many issues as possible, including poverty, oppression, race relations, AIDS, incest, illegal immigration, assimilation,

I dont think Ive ever rated a book based mostly on its second-last chapter, but I think thats what I did here. For the majority of this book I thought it was an average read. The first part with the child narrator in Zimbabwe was ok, but so scattered and not overly interesting (how many times can the kids steal guavas, eat guavas, get constipated from guavas?). It felt like a bunch of observations and anecdotes, some standalone short stories even, not really a cohesive novel. Then the child

This is a book that really grew on me. It starts off following a group of children in Zimbabwe: Darling, Stina, Chipo, Bastard and Godknows, seemingly innocent children living in a not so innocent environment. As a child, Darling and friends lived in shanty towns in Zimbabwe after Mugabes paramilitary police bulldozed down their homes. They spent their days stealing guavas,getting into mischief and daydreaming about the typical things African kids do- about eating good food and ultimately

I had a spirited chat with a fan of this book. She (naturally) stated I was behaving in a sexist manner and implied, with dark tones of voice, that I was probably a racist too, because I don't think this is a particularly good book, and *certainly* don't think it's Booker-worthy.Rating: 2.75* of fiveThe Publisher Says: A remarkable literary debut -- shortlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize! The unflinching and powerful story of a young girl's journey out of Zimbabwe and to America.Darling is

Find all of my reviews at: http://52bookminimum.blogspot.com/NoViolet Bulawayo tells a tale that is almost unfathomable. Who could ever imagine living the first few years of life as an average middle-class girl, in an average house, in an average town, attending an average school and having that world flipped upside down? That is the story of what happens to Darling and her friends when bulldozers sweep through their average lives in Zimbabwe, demolishing everything in their path. Now the

This had been on my radar for a while, but due to a few disappointing reviews I doubt I would have bothered with it if I hadn't been reading the Booker longlist. And whilst the book's not perfect, it was a great deal better than I'd been led to believe.The freshness of the voice hit me from the first page. Darling, the young Zimbabwean narrator is on the way to steal guavas from a rich area with her friends, says We didn't eat this morning and my stomach feels like somebody took a shovel and dug

My thoughts:- An enlightening debut that takes the reader to Zimbabwe during the Mugabe regime. The subject matter is a bit grim as the novel opens with Darling and her friends leaving their shanty town to roam the finer neighborhoods in search of guava for food. - We learn of the daily routines of the displaced civilians: the adults who neglect children in search for work in the mines and the borders; the games the children play to fight boredom and make sense of the dire futures. - The author