- Zimbabweans, Families, Emigration and immigration, Political violence
Whenever foreigners visit Paradise they always ask Darling and her friends to smile for the camera. Here are some of the things Darling and her friends have to smile about: stealing guavas, gifts from NGOs, singing Lady Gaga at the tops of their voices. But they all want to go to the real paradise in America or Britain.
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Contemporary, prestige, character-led and grave.
- contemporarynostalgic
- unpretentiousprestige
- character-ledplot-driven
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
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About the book
- Author
- NoViolet Bulawayo
- First published
- 2013
- Pages
- 301
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House, Gallimard, Reagan Arthur Books
- Editions
- 12
- Language
- French, Japanese, English
- ISBN
- 9788498388374
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NoViolet Bulawayo is the pen name of Elizabeth Zandile Tshele. NoViolet Bulawayo is the author of the novels ***Glory*** and ***We Need New Names***, which was recognized with the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, the Pen/Hemingway Award, the LA Times Book Prize Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, the Etisalat Prize for Literature, the Fred Brown Literary Award, the Betty Trask Award, the Barnes and Noble Discover Award (second place), and the National Book Foundation “5 Under 35” Fiction Selection. ***We Need New Names*** was also shortlisted for the International Literature Award, the Man Booker Prize, and the Guardian First Book Award. NoViolet earned her MFA at Cornell University, and has
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