• ISBN13: 9780099581888
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: N/A
• Publisher: PRH India
• Publisher Imprint: Vintage UK
• Publication Date: May 6, 2014
• Pages: 304
• Original Price: INR 799.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 216 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Coming of Age

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 Paradi

Bulawayo, Noviolet: - NOVIOLET BULAWAYO grew up in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. When she was eighteen, she moved to Kalamazoo, Michigan. Her first novel, We Need New Names, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the Guardian First Book Award and the Barnes & Noble Discover Award, and won a Betty Trask Award, Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, Hurston-Wright Legacy Award, the Etisalat Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First Fiction. She has also won the Caine Prize for African Writing and a National Book Award's '5 Under 35'. NoViolet earned her MFA at Cornell University, and was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, where she taught fiction. She currently writes full-time, from wherever she finds herself.