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 mimbza | Apr 7, 2024 |    ) BarnesBookshelf | Oct 30, 2023 | 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. (  ) gjky | Apr 9, 2023 |  ) steve02476 | Jan 3, 2023 |  ) peterwhumphreys | Sep 12, 2022 |
 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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2013 Booker longlist: We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo
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This is a coming of age story set in Zimbabwe around 2007 or 2008, told through the eyes of ten-year-old Darling. The author NoViolet Bulawayo (Elizabeth Tshele) was the first African woman to be shortlisted for a Man Booker Award.
The book starts off following a group of children in Zimbabwe: Darling, Stina, Chipo, Bastard and Godknows. As they run around stealing guavas, trying to figure out how to get the baby out of Chipo’s belly and watching the spectacle and drama of Sunday church services, they reveal a world of political unrest and turmoil. Through the oblique gaze of childhood, not fully understanding the politics and events occurring, and just accepting life as it is, these children show us something of their world with a humour and candour that made this an engaging read. There are clearly terrible events happening but this style makes them somewhat easier to read.
I found the second half of the novel when Darling goes to America and lives with her aunt far less interesting. Clearly the immigrant experience and feeling of displacement and disconnection is an important one, but somehow did not come off as well for me.
I am glad I read this book and I would like to read another by this author. Be aware if you do choose to read this book it does contain a childhood rape. (