Glory

A Novel

Author  NoViolet Bulawayo
Glory

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 BOOKER PRIZE*
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE*
*LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION*
*LONGLISTED FOR THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE*
*LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD*

From the award-winning author of the Booker Prize finalist We Need New Names, an anthropomorphic blockbuster of a novel that chronicles the fall of an oppressive regime, and the chaotic, kinetic potential for real liberation that rises in its wake.

Glory centres around the unexpected fall of Old Horse, a long-serving, tyrannical leader of the fictional country of Jidada, and the drama that follows for a rumbustious nation of animals on the precarious path to freedom. Inspired by the unexpected fall by coup, in November 2017, of Robert Mugabe—Zimbabwe’s president of…