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Glory

Glory

LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2023

Summary

**LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2023**
**SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2022**

Discover an exhilarating novel about power and corruption set in a nation trapped in a cycle as old as time.


'A masterpiece for our times. Gripping and exhilarating' Observer

'Uplifting and original' Stylist

This is the story of a country on the brink of revolution.

It's the story of Destiny, who returns home to witness the uprising.

It's a story for all of us, and a reminder that history can be changed in the blink of an eye.

'A novel with heart and energy' Daily Telegraph

'Bulawayo is really out-Orwelling Orwell. This is a satire with sharper teeth, angrier, and also very, very funny' New York Times Book Review


** SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2023**
**SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 VISIONARY ARTS AWARDS**

Reviews

  • Allegory, satire and fairytale rolled into one mighty punch
    Guardian

About the author

NoViolet Bulawayo

NOVIOLET BULAWAYO grew up in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. When she was eighteen, she moved to Kalamazoo, Michigan. Her first novel, We Need New Names, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the Guardian First Book Award and the Barnes & Noble Discover Award, and won a Betty Trask Award, Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, Hurston-Wright Legacy Award, the Etisalat Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First Fiction. She has also won the Caine Prize for African Writing and a National Book Award's '5 Under 35'. NoViolet earned her MFA at Cornell University, and was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, where she taught fiction. She currently writes full-time, from wherever she finds herself.
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