2022 BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST Manifoldly clever…brilliant… ‘Glory’ is its own vivid world drawn
from its own folklore. This is a satire with sharper teeth angrier and also very very
funny.” —Violet Kupersmith The New York Times Book Review Genius.—#1 New York Times
bestselling author Jason ReynoldsFrom the award-winning author of the Booker-prize finalist We
Need New Names an exhilarating novel about the fall of an oppressive regime and the chaos and
opportunity that rise in its wake. NoViolet Bulawayo’s bold new novel follows the fall of the
Old Horse the long-serving leader of a fictional country and the drama that follows for a
rumbustious nation of animals on the path to true liberation. Inspired by the unexpected fall
by coup in November 2017 of Robert G. Mugabe Zimbabwe’s president of nearly four decades
Glory shows a country's imploding narrated by a chorus of animal voices that unveil the
ruthlessness required to uphold the illusion of absolute power and the imagination and
bulletproof optimism to overthrow it completely. By immersing readers in the daily lives of a
population in upheaval Bulawayo reveals the dazzling life force and irresistible wit that lie
barely concealed beneath the surface of seemingly bleak circumstances. And at the center of
this tumult is Destiny a young goat who returns to Jidada to bear witness to revolution—and to
recount the unofficial history and the potential legacy of the females who have quietly pulled
the strings here. The animal kingdom—its connection to our primal responses and its resonance
in the mythology folktales and fairy tales that define cultures the world over—unmasks the
surreality of contemporary global politics to help us understand our world more clearly even
as Bulawayo plucks us right out of it. Although Zimbabwe is the immediate inspiration for this
thrilling story Glory was written in a time of global clamor with resistance movements across
the world challenging different forms of oppression. Thus it often feels like Bulawayo captures
several places in one blockbuster allegory crystallizing a turning point in history with the
texture and nuance that only the greatest fiction can.
