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[ We Need New Names By Bulawayo, Noviolet ( Author ) Paperback 2014 ] (edição: 2014)

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Darling is only ten years old, and yet she must navigate a fragile and violent world. In Zimbabwe, Darling and her friends steal guavas, try to get the baby out of young Chipo's belly, and grasp at memories of Before. Before their homes were destroyed by paramilitary policemen, before the school closed, before the fathers left for dangerous jobs abroad. But Darling has a chance to escape: she has an aunt in America. She travels to this new land in search of America's famous abundance only to find that her options as an immigrant are perilously few.

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We Need New Names de NoViolet Bulawayo

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    The Boy Next Door de Irene Sabatini (Jayeless)
    Jayeless: Also looks at the many issues affecting Zimbabwe at the time, but I found "The Boy Next Door" more grounded and realistic.
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This book provides an incredibly interesting perspective of a young girl immigrating to the US from Zimbabwe. I was struck by how the story jumps in time, skipping months or years to get to the next event. It reminded me a bit of "The House on Mango Street" by Sandra Cisneros in that regard. Watching Darling grow up and see how her time in the US changes her from who she was in Zimbabwe is very poignant. There is a lot to think about with this book, and I feel it would make a good book club book. ( )
  BarnesBookshelf | Oct 30, 2023 |
NoViolet Bulawayo's first novel made the 2013 Booker shortlist, which gives an insight into her talent. We Need New Names is the story of Darling, a young child living in poverty in a Zimbabwean shanty town. Darling and her friends run riot amid the squalor, and their games innocently reflect the horror going on around them.

Darling eventually escapes this environment and moves to the USA, where she struggles to get to grips with her new life. She feels the strings attaching her to her old country, but knows she can never go back.

The first half of the book is both amusing and shocking as Darling describes the games she plays with her friends. However, the second half is a more mundane account of a young immigrant in a new country. That said, there is one chapter called How They Lived which is as good an account of the experiences of a third world migrant to the new world as I've ever read. Gems like this chapter make We Need New Names a very worthwhile addition to African literature. ( )
  gjky | Apr 9, 2023 |
Beautiful, horrifying, funny, thoughtful. Story of a poor ten-year-old girl in Zimbabwe and then a few years later as an immigrant teenager in Michigan. Great first novel -- I'm waiting for her next work. ( )
  steve02476 | Jan 3, 2023 |
A very fast paced novel reflecting the life of a person leaving her broken indigenous country for life in the USA. Very moving account of the experience with quirky references to Zimbabwe and the horrors of the regime. ( )
  peterwhumphreys | Sep 12, 2022 |
I really liked this book, and it's going to be the first I recommend to a friend if said friend were to ask, "Why are you always on about all the great novels by African and African diaspora authors?" and I'd be all, "Read _We Need New Names_, because it's really really good!" and then they'd totally agree with me. It is a series of connected vignettes that tell deep emotional truths about poverty, inequality, and immigration. I'm currently teaching a unit on immigration and my class recently got into a discussion about how immigration can be so, so painful -- I could easily include some of the later chapters in "We Need New Names" as examples. ( )
  leahsusan | Mar 26, 2022 |
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Darling is 10 when we first meet her, and the voice Ms. Bulawayo has fashioned for her is utterly distinctive — by turns unsparing and lyrical, unsentimental and poetic, spiky and meditative. It is the voice, early on, of a child — observant, skeptical and hardhearted in the way children can be.
adicionado por ozzer | editarNew York Times, MICHIKO KAKUTANI (May 15, 2013)
 
Bulawayo's keen powers of observation and social commentary, and her refreshing sense of humour, come through best in moments when she seems to have forgotten her checklist and goes unscripted: where, for example, we find Darling and her friends Krystal, the African American, and Marina, the Nigerian, watching porn in the basement, and they turn off the volume so they can make all the groaning and moaning noises themselves. Or when, on describing snow falling outside the window, she writes: "How does something so big it shrouds everything come down just like that and you don't even hear it coming?"
 

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Darling is only ten years old, and yet she must navigate a fragile and violent world. In Zimbabwe, Darling and her friends steal guavas, try to get the baby out of young Chipo's belly, and grasp at memories of Before. Before their homes were destroyed by paramilitary policemen, before the school closed, before the fathers left for dangerous jobs abroad. But Darling has a chance to escape: she has an aunt in America. She travels to this new land in search of America's famous abundance only to find that her options as an immigrant are perilously few.

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