Glory

«Few writers can engineer a sentence like NoViolet Bulawayo»

«Allegory, satire and fairytale rolled into one mighty punch»

«Brave, and moving »

«Vital and universal »

«Bulawayo is really out-Orwelling Orwell. This is a satire with sharper teeth, angrier, and also very, very funny»

«Glory revels in the absurd but offers a terrifying vision of political disintegration for readers today»

«An urgent and engaging meditation on the farce of totalitarianism and the struggle of those who live under it to forge something better»

«Glory is a witty and moving tribute to the people of Zimbabwe and their history»

«Bulawayo broaches what it means to fight for democracy and call somewhere home in a timely and imaginative way . . . A memorable, funny and yet serious allegory about a country's plight under tyranny and what individual and collective freedom means in an age of virtual worlds and political soundbites»

«It delivers, over the course of 400 pages of wordplay and animal magic, a surprisingly warm, intimate and, yes, human feeling»

«You thought you were getting a novel as good as We Need New Names . . . Glory is even more dazzling . . . Calls to mind other great storytellers such as Herta Müller, Elif Shafak and Zimbabwean compatriot Yvonne Vera»

«Bulawayo's tale of dictatorship and oppression explores the exaltation and downfall of a would-be savior»

«Robert Mugabe is there in all but name in this striking allegory - an Animal Farm that shows how narratives of liberation and self-determination curdle under a dictator's power»