Books by NoViolet Bulawayo

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2013** Ten-year-old Darling has a choice: it s down, or out To play the country-game, we have to choose a country. Everybody wants to be the USA and Britain and Canada and Australia and Switzerland and them. Nobody wants to be rags of countries like Congo, like Somalia, like Iraq, like Sudan, like Haiti and not even this one we live in who wants to be a terrible place of hunger and things falling apart? Darling and her friends live in a shanty called Paradise, which of course is no such thing. It isn t all bad, though. There s mischief and adventure, games of Find bin Laden, stealing guavas, singing Lady Gaga at the tops of their voices.They dream of the paradises of America, Dubai, Europe, where Madonna and Barack Obama and David Beckham live. For Darling, that dream will come true. But, like the thousands of people all over the world trying to forge new lives far from home, Darling finds this new paradise brings its own set of challenges for her and also for those she s left behind. Stunning New York Times Extraordinary Daily Telegraph A debut that blends wit and pain... Heartrending...wonderfully original Independent Sometimes shocking, often heartbreaking but also pulsing with colour and energy The Times

Nobody wants to be rags of countries like Congo, like Somalia, like Iraq, like Sudan, like Haiti and not even this one we live in - who wants to be a terrible place of hunger and things falling apart?'Darling and her friends live in a shanty called Paradise, which of course is no such thing.

I Zimbabwe har borgerkrigen hærget, og pigen Darling må navigere i en skrøbelig og voldelig verden. Den landsby hun boede i er blevet ødelagt af paramilitære grupper, og hun bor nu i slumbyen Paradise. Her fordriver hun tiden med vennerne Stina, Chipo, Godknows, Sbho og Bastard. De opfinder deres egne lege, stjæler guavaer og prøver at få babyen ud af Chipos mave. Men Darling har en tante i USA - hun har en mulighed for at slippe væk. Som stor teenager rejser Darling til det forjættede land. Kun for at finde ud af at hendes muligheder som immigrant er stærkt begrænsede.NoViolet Bulawayo (1981) er født og opvokset i Zimbabwe. Hun underviser i dag på Stanford Universitetet i Californien.Vi skal have nye navne er NoViolet Bulawayos debutroman. Forfatteren har modtaget en lang række priser for romanen, bl.a. 2014 Hemingway/PEN prisen for bedste debutroman. I 2013 var romanen shortlistet til MAN Booker prisen.