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This book provides an incredibly interesting perspective of a young girl immigrating to the US from Zimbabwe. I was struck by how the story jumps in time, skipping months or years to get to the next event. It reminded me a bit of "The House on Mango Street" by Sandra Cisneros in that regard. Watching Darling grow up and see how her time in the US changes her from who she was in Zimbabwe is very poignant. There is a lot to think about with this book, and I feel it would make a good book club book. ( ) NoViolet Bulawayo's first novel made the 2013 Booker shortlist, which gives an insight into her talent. We Need New Names is the story of Darling, a young child living in poverty in a Zimbabwean shanty town. Darling and her friends run riot amid the squalor, and their games innocently reflect the horror going on around them. Darling eventually escapes this environment and moves to the USA, where she struggles to get to grips with her new life. She feels the strings attaching her to her old country, but knows she can never go back. The first half of the book is both amusing and shocking as Darling describes the games she plays with her friends. However, the second half is a more mundane account of a young immigrant in a new country. That said, there is one chapter called How They Lived which is as good an account of the experiences of a third world migrant to the new world as I've ever read. Gems like this chapter make We Need New Names a very worthwhile addition to African literature. I really liked this book, and it's going to be the first I recommend to a friend if said friend were to ask, "Why are you always on about all the great novels by African and African diaspora authors?" and I'd be all, "Read _We Need New Names_, because it's really really good!" and then they'd totally agree with me. It is a series of connected vignettes that tell deep emotional truths about poverty, inequality, and immigration. I'm currently teaching a unit on immigration and my class recently got into a discussion about how immigration can be so, so painful -- I could easily include some of the later chapters in "We Need New Names" as examples.
Darling is 10 when we first meet her, and the voice Ms. Bulawayo has fashioned for her is utterly distinctive — by turns unsparing and lyrical, unsentimental and poetic, spiky and meditative. It is the voice, early on, of a child — observant, skeptical and hardhearted in the way children can be. Bulawayo's keen powers of observation and social commentary, and her refreshing sense of humour, come through best in moments when she seems to have forgotten her checklist and goes unscripted: where, for example, we find Darling and her friends Krystal, the African American, and Marina, the Nigerian, watching porn in the basement, and they turn off the volume so they can make all the groaning and moaning noises themselves. Or when, on describing snow falling outside the window, she writes: "How does something so big it shrouds everything come down just like that and you don't even hear it coming?" PriserPrestigefyllda urvalUppmärksammade listor
Darling, Chipo och Horungen. NoViolet Bulawayos Bookerprisnominerade roman om 9-r̄iga Darling i kk̄staden. Familjens hem har fr̲str̲ts av president Mugabes "krigsveteraner" i Zimbabwe. Darling vx̃er allts ̄upp i en allt annat ñ barnvñlig milj,̲ men hon r̃ smart och uppfinningsrik s ̄hon klarar sig trots allt ganska bra. P ̄dagarna hñger hon med sina kompisar, Chipo, Sbho, Gudvet, Horungen och Stine. De rr̲ sig mellan Paradise, kk̄staden dr̃ de bor, och rikare villaomrd̄en dr̃ de frm̃st g̃nar sig t̄ att stjl̃a. Nḡon skola finns inte lñgre, och Darlings pappa har inte synts till sedan han reste till Sydafrika fr̲ att jobba. Sjl̃v vill hon mest av allt flytta till sin moster i "Detrn̄gtmishigan" (Detroit, Michigan) USA.Det hr̃ r̃ en omskakande och nervigt vital skildring av en ung flickas vuxenblivande - frn̄ hennes liv och tillvaro i den fattiga kk̄staden i det sn̲derfallande Zimbabwe till exilen i USA med allt vad den fr̲ med sig av nya, uppslitande erfarenheter. Ett utdrag ur romanen har beln̲ats med Caine Prize for African Writing, ett annat publicerades i senaste numret av den svenska utgv̄an av Granta. Romanen har v̲ersatts till svenska av Niclas Hval, som tidigare v̲ersatt bland andra Junot Diaz, vilken i sin tur hyllat NoViolet Bulawayo. "Bulawayos debutroman r̃ intensiv och gripande p ̄samma gn̄g som den utstrl̄ar mñsklighet och humor."The Independent verst̃tare: Niclas Hval [Elib] Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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