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Follows ten-year-old Zimbabwe native, Darling, as she escapes the closed schools and paramilitary police control of her homeland in search of opportunity and freedom with an aunt in America.

Main Author: Bulawayo, NoViolet.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Reagan Arthur Books, 2013.
Edition: First edition.
Subjects:
Girls > Zimbabwe > Fiction.
Political violence > Zimbabwe > Fiction.
Families > Zimbabwe > Fiction.
Emigration and immigration > Fiction.
Zimbabweans > United States > Fiction.
Domestic fiction > United States.
Summary: Follows ten-year-old Zimbabwe native, Darling, as she escapes the closed schools and paramilitary police control of her homeland in search of opportunity and freedom with an aunt in America.
Physical Description: 296 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN: 9780316230810
0316230812
Author Notes: NoViolet Bulawayo 's story "Hitting Budapest," the opening chapter of the novel, won the 2011 Caine Prize for African Writing. NoViolet's other work has been shortlisted for the 2009 SA PEN Studzinsi Award, and has appeared in Callaloo , The Boston Review , Newsweek , and The Warwick Review , as well as in anthologies in Zimbabwe, South Africa and the UK.

NoViolet recently earned her MFA at Cornell University, where her work has been recognized with a Truman Capote Fellowship. She will be attending Stanford in the fall as a Wallace Stegner Fellow for 2012-2014. NoViolet was born and raised in Zimbabwe.

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