'Glory' nods to Orwell as animals explore survival under a corrupt government
NoViolet Bulawayo's book expresses a people's frustration, terror, resilience, uprising and hope in a way that can be applied to a multitude of nations and political realities around the globe.
Award-winning Zimbabwean author NoViolet Bulawayo's new novel Glory opens on an Independence Day rally in Jidada, a fictional nation modeled after Zimbabwe. A group of females, the Sisters of the Disappeared, interrupt Old Horse, the Father of the Nation, in the middle of his speech by storming the podium naked in protest, calling for a return of those disappeared by his government.
Despite their discomfort with the nudity, those in attendance "heard the roaring right in their intestines, where lived the memories of disappeared friends and relatives or relatives of friends and
