Glory

Jidada is the name of the land. A country populated by humanised animals, ruled by the strongest of them, for more than forty years. He once brought independence to the African continent, broke the shackles of history, only to promptly put others on them. But now there are increasing signs that his powers are waning. Whoever hears him speak, whoever sees the Old Horse blinking in the sun, him and all his rotten apparatus, knows: his days are numbered. Hope is now returning to Jidada, for a just future, for prosperity and change, finally a better life for all of us! But the regime fights back with weapons harder than dreams, sharper than imagination, deadlier than sheer joie de vivre, until a homecoming from exile changes everything.

Glory is the brilliant transformation of our present. In a language that sings and dances and leaps and shouts, NoViolet Bulawayo tells the story of a community struggling against repression. And brings both to light: glamour and beauty, horror and pain at the bottom of human freedom.