The novel is a negotiation between this colonialist past and a future as an independent nation. Bulawayo’s novel operates within its own vast mythos and cultural legacy, which is slowly built upon by various references to Jidada’s rich albeit complicated past as a former colony. Though every character in the novel is an animal, the struggles and conflicts in the novel feel as real as the events they’re inspired by. It follows the downfall of a dictatorship in the fictional African country of Jidada, in which the 40-year reign of Old Horse comes to an end in a violent coup d’etat (inspired by an actual 2017 coup in Zimbabwe). NoViolet Bulawayo’s “Glory” is nothing short of a masterpiece. Our longlisted underdog: “Nightcrawling” by Leila Mottley
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