We need new names
Title:
We need new names
Author:
Bulawayo, NoViolet.
ISBN:
9780099581888
Publication Information:
London : Vintage, 2014.
Physical Description:
294 p. ; 20 cm
General Note:
First published in Great Britain in 2013 by Chatto & Windus.
Abstract:
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.
Genre:
Subject:
| Girls -- Zimbabwe -- Fiction. |
| Political violence -- Zimbabwe -- Fiction. |
| Families -- Zimbabwe -- Fiction. |
| Emigration and immigration -- Fiction. |
| Zimbabweans -- United States -- Fiction. |
| Domestic fiction |
Summary:
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.