We need new names

298 pages

English language

Published July 15, 2014 by W F Howes Ltd.

ISBN:
978-1-4712-5846-6
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OCLC Number:
872711785

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Whenever foreigners visit Paradise they always ask Darling and her friends to smile for the camera. Here are some of the things Darling and her friends have to smile about: stealing guavas, gifts from NGOs, singing Lady Gaga at the tops of their voices. But they all want to go to the real paradise in America or Britain.

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This book was fascinating and hard to read at the same time. It was like looking over someone's shoulder and knowing all the things they knew, good and bad, horrifying and embarrassing and unjust, all at the same time. I'm still processing it.

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Subjects

  • Fiction
  • Social conditions

Places

  • Zimbabwe