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Glory

NoViolet Bulawayo

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Leyla Sanai
Oct 27, 2022
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I found this novel about horrific political events in Zimbabwe gripping, occasionally horrifying, but most of all, immersive. There is the idiosyncratic argot - the repetitions will annoy some, but I let them roll over me like the roar of a wave or a song chorus. There is the Orwellian idea from Animal Farm of making the characters animals other than hu…

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