Ebook {Epub PDF} We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo

 · For Darling, the narrator of NoViolet Bulawayo’s striking first novel, “We Need New Names,” the answer is almost nothing — except they’re places she has lived. Darling’s corner of Author: Uzodinma Iweala.  · In We Need New Names, NoViolet Bulawayo juxtaposes different realities. Despite critiques for exploiting stereotypes about Africa and the experiences of African immigrants in the U.S., NoViolet forces readers to face undeniable truths. Trending. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe is a .  · by Rebecca Scherm. NoViolet Bulawayo ’s debut novel, We Need New Names (Little, Brown), opens in Paradise, the Zimbabwe shantytown where Darling and her mother have lived since their house was bulldozed by the government. Starting in , the government program Operation Murambatsvina (“Clear out Rubbish”) destroyed entire neighborhoods in a few hours, leaving more .

In the debut novel by the Zimbabwean writer NoViolet Bulawayo (Elizabeth Zandile T shele, born in T sholotsho) We Need New Names (), various paradigms of migration are at. play. In. In "We Need New Names," NoViolet Bulawayo tells the story of Darling, who arrives from Zimbabwe to live with her aunt in Detroit and is conflicted in her feelings of her old and new homes. NoViolet Bulawayo's new novel, We Need New Names, is an extension of her Caine prize-winning short story, "Hitting Budapest", and yes, it has fraudulent preachers and is partly set in a soul.

We Need New Names is a book that criticizes social and political evils happening in Zimbabwe, other parts of Africa and the supposedly paradise-like place; America. Bulawayo criticizes these evils by using minors with weird names; Darling, Chipo, Godknows, Sbho, Bastard, and Stina. She puts them in a slum called Paradise, where they ironically suffer from a myriad of things; political violence, rape, lack of basic needs, and the effects of HIV. In We Need New Names, NoViolet Bulawayo juxtaposes different realities. Despite critiques for exploiting stereotypes about Africa and the experiences of African immigrants in the U.S., NoViolet forces readers to face undeniable truths. NoViolet Bulawayo 's new novel, We Need New Names, is an extension of her Caine prize-winning short story, " Hitting Budapest ", and yes, it has fraudulent preachers and is partly set in a soul.