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Glory

A Novel

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Glory

Von: NoViolet Bulawayo
Gesprochen von: Chipo Chung
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2022 BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST

“Manifoldly clever…brilliant… ‘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

"Genius."—#1 New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds

From the award-winning author of the Booker-prize finalist We Need New Names, an exhilarating novel about the fall of an oppressive regime, and the chaos and opportunity that rise in its wake.

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. Inspired by the unexpected fall by coup in November 2017 of Robert G. 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. 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.

And 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. 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.

Although 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. Thus it often feels like Bulawayo captures several places in one blockbuster allegory, crystallizing a turning point in history with the texture and nuance that only the greatest fiction can. Belletristik Historische Romane Politik
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A beautiful well written story. The story is intense and rouses such strong emotions that many a time I found tears rolling down my cheeks.

must read

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die Sprecherin ist absolut weltklasse!! Der Stil des buches ist speziell, die vielen Wiederholungen interessantes Stilmittel. Überwiegt am Anfang das satirische Element, wird es im Lauf der Geschichte immer realistischer und auch beklemmender. Definitiv grosse Literatur!

bewegend! und mitunter lustig

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Inspiring and hard hitting satire of Zimbabwe post independence.
You hope Zimbabwe really gets a decent leader! After all the kleptocrats of various skin colours, they deserve it!

Animal Farm in Zimbabwe

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