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A review by tomleetang
Glory by NoViolet Bulawayo
3.0
Not entirely sure why this roman a clef needs to make people into animals, since Glory lacks the kind of fabular style of Orwell's Animal Farm. Perhaps just a distancing mechanism. Very educational about recent Zimbabwean politics and history. Like the best fiction, it makes the rather dry stuff of the news bristle with scalpel-like intelligence and indignation.
There are some interesting stylistic flourishes, but overall creativity takes a back seat to a sort of record-keeping of struggle in countries like Zimbabwe for glory, "the kind of glory that burns eternal and glows with living light."
There are some interesting stylistic flourishes, but overall creativity takes a back seat to a sort of record-keeping of struggle in countries like Zimbabwe for glory, "the kind of glory that burns eternal and glows with living light."