Zimbabwean writer NoViolet Bulawayo’s second novel, Glory, is going to be published by Viking on March 8, 2022.
The book, according to the publishers, is a “blockbuster novel about the fall of an oppressive regime and the chaos of revolution, presented as an uncannily recognizable anthropomorphic allegory—and inspired by the 2017 fall of Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe. In Bulawayo’s bold, vividly imagined novel, a chorus of animal voices calls out the dangerous absurdity of contemporary global politics, and helps us see our human world more clearly.”
Executive Editor at Viking, Laura Tisdel, said in a statement that ““NoViolet Bulawayo’s debut We Need New Names—which won over readers, critics, and award juries alike—heralded the unforgettable arrival of a radiant, sharp new talent in fiction. With Glory, Bulawayo’s inimitable voice on the page, as well as her ability to reflect our contemporary circumstances in an utterly original way through fiction, deliver an ambitious, conceptually thrilling, gut-punch of a novel.” Bulawayo was born in 1981 and raised in the Tsholotsho District, Zimbabwe. In 2010, NoViolet earned her MFA at Cornell University where she was a recipient of the Truman Capote Fellowship, and most recently, a lecturer of English. She was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. Bulawayo won the Caine Prize for African Writing for her short story “Hitting Budapest” about a gang of street children in a Zimbabwean shantytown. Her first novel We Need New Names was released in 2013, and was named on the Man Booker Prize 2013 shortlist.
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