A 1st edition/1st printing of the highly-rated 2nd novel from award-winning US-based Zimbabwean author and writer NoViolet Bulawayo, the pen name of Elizabeth Zandile Tshele.  Her debut novel, 2013's award-winning 'We Need New Names ' was on the 2013 Booker Prize shortlist.  




** On 26 July 2022, this was named on the 2022 Booker Prize Longlist.  On 6 September, it was confirmed as one of the 6 selections on the Shortlist.  It was also confirmed as one of the Longlisted books for the prestigious 2023 Women's Prize for Fiction.  **





'Glory ', published by Chatto and Windus in London on 7 April 2022, 1st edition, large modern hardback, [x] + 403 pages.





In fine unread condition.







** LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2022 **





Glory is an energy burst, an exhilarating joyride.  It is the story of an uprising, told by a bold, vivid chorus of animal voices that helps us see our human world more clearly







A long time ago, in a bountiful land not so far away, the animal denizens lived quite happily.  Then the colonisers arrived.  After nearly a hundred years, a bloody War of Liberation brought new hope for the animals -- along with a new leader.  A charismatic horse who commanded the sun and ruled and ruled and kept on ruling.  For forty years he ruled, with the help of his elite band of Chosen Ones, a scandalously violent pack of Defenders and, as he aged, his beloved and ambitious young donkey wife, Marvellous.




But even the sticks and stones know there is no night ever so long it does not end with dawn.  And so it did for the Old Horse, one day as he sat down to his Earl Grey tea and favourite radio programme.  A new regime, a new leader. Or apparently so.   And once again, the animals were full of hope . . .




Glory tells the story of a country seemingly trapped in a cycle as old as time.  And yet, as it unveils the myriad tricks required to uphold the illusion of absolute power, it reminds us that the glory of tyranny only lasts as long as its victims are willing to let it.  History can be stopped in a moment.  With the return of a long-lost daughter, a #freefairncredibleelection, a turning tide -- even a single bullet.







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