"Written in sharp, snappy prose, this is a raw and thought-provoking debut" - Easy Living "A brilliantly poignant tale of what it is to be an outsider in a strange land" - Glamour "Bulawayo's use of contemporary culture.as well as her fearless defense of the immigrant experience through honoring the cadence of spoken language, sets this book apart-on the top shelf" - Oprah magazine "A powerful new African voice" - Pride Magazine wonderfully original" - Margaret Busby, Independent "A really talented and ambitious author" - Helon Habila, Guardian "Creates a fictional world that is immediate, fresh, and identifies the arrival of a talented writer" - Francesca Angelini, Sunday Times (Culture) remarkably talented author" - Michiko Kakutani, New York Times Bulawayo has fashioned for her is utterly distinctive - by turns unsparing and lyrical, unsentimental and poetic, spiky and meditative. "Darling is 10 when we first meet her, and the voice Ms. But, like the thousands of people all over the world trying to forge new lives far from home, Darling finds this new paradise brings its own set of challenges - for her and also for those she's left behind.
They dream of the paradises of America, Dubai, Europe, where Madonna and Barack Obama and David Beckham live. There's mischief and adventure, games of finding bin Laden, stealing guavas, singing Lady Gaga at the tops of their voices. Nobody wants to be rags of countries like Congo, like Somalia, like Iraq, like Sudan, like Haiti, and not even this one we live in - who wants to be a terrible place of hunger and things falling apart?' Darling and her friends live in a shanty called Paradise, which of course is no such thing.
and Britain and Canada and Australia and Switzerland and them. 'To play the country-game, we have to choose a country.
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