The animal kingdom-its connection to our primal responses and its resonance in the mythology, folktales, and fairy tales that define cultures the world over-unmasks the surreality of contemporary global politics to help us understand our world more clearly, even as Bulawayo plucks us right out of it.Īlthough Zimbabwe is the immediate inspiration for this thrilling story, Glory was written in a time of global clamor, with resistance movements across the world challenging different forms of oppression. By immersing readers in the daily lives of a population in upheaval, Bulawayo reveals the dazzling life force and irresistible wit that lie barely concealed beneath the surface of seemingly bleak circumstances.Īnd at the center of this tumult is Destiny, a young goat who returns to Jidada to bear witness to revolution-and to recount the unofficial history and the potential legacy of the females who have quietly pulled the strings here. Mugabe, Zimbabwe’s president of nearly four decades, Glory shows a country’s imploding, narrated by a chorus of animal voices that unveil the ruthlessness required to uphold the illusion of absolute power and the imagination and bulletproof optimism to overthrow it completely. Inspired by the unexpected fall by coup in November 2017 of Robert G. NoViolet Bulawayo’s bold new novel follows the fall of the Old Horse, the long-serving leader of a fictional country, and the drama that follows for a rumbustious nation of animals on the path to true liberation. “Genius.”-#1 New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynoldsįrom the award-winning author of the Booker-prize finalist We Need New Names, a exhilarating novel about the fall of an oppressive regime, and the chaos and opportunity that rise in its wake. “Few writers possess a literary voice as inimitable as Bulawayo’s… dazzling voices of this novel will draw you deep into its ambitious and mystifying heart.” - Vulture

‘Glory’ is its own vivid world, drawn from its own folklore. This is a satire with sharper teeth, angrier, and also very, very funny.” -Violet Kupersmith, The New York Times Book Review. “Manifoldly clever…brilliant…This is not ‘Animal Farm.’ Not its remix, nor its translation.

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