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02520aam a2200301Ii 4500 001 06CDE38E2A8711EDB7025AE94EECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220902011726 008 210506t20222022enk 000 f eng d 020 $a 9781784744304 020 $a 1784744301 020 $a 1784744298 020 $a 9781784744298 035 $a (OCoLC)1249801728 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d UKMGB $d OCLCF $d NZHWP $d YDX $d SILO 050 4 $a PR9390.9 B85 G56 2022 100 1 $a Bulawayo, NoViolet, $e author. 245 10 $a Glory / $c NoViolet Bulawayo. 264 1 $a London : $b Chatto and Windus, $c 2022. 300 $a 403 pages ; $c 24 cm 520 $a An effervescent, punchy, piercingly funny novel exploring the fall of Robert Mugabe from Booker-shortlisted Zimbabwean novelist NoViolet Bulawayo Glory is an energy burst, an exhilarating ride. A bold, vivid chorus of animal voices calls out the dangerous absurdity of contemporary global politics, and 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 favorite 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. 650 0 $a Revolutions $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Africa $x Politics and government $v Fiction. 776 08 $i ebook version : $z 9781473589452 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20230907011449.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=06CDE38E2A8711EDB7025AE94EECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search