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NoViolet Bulawayo
From a Zimbabwean shantytown called Paradise to a cold American city.
Bulawayo's debut opens with children playing in a Zimbabwean slum, then follows Darling as she migrates to an aunt in the American Midwest and finds that arrival is its own kind of loss. The voice is a child's, sharp and unsentimental about hunger, faith and displacement. It was the first novel by a Black African woman to be shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
Its legacy. It grew out of her 2011 Caine Prize-winning story 'Hitting Budapest.'
- Author
- NoViolet Bulawayo
- First published
- 2013
- Genre
- Novel
- Theme
- Contemporary Voices, Memoir and Testimony
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