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We Need New Names is the 2013 debut novel of expatriate Zimbabwean writer NoViolet Bulawayo. The first chapter of the book, "Hitting Budapest", initially presented as a story in the Boston Review,NoViolet Bulawayo, "Hitting Budapest", Boston Read More..

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Description	We Need New Names is the 2013 debut novel of expatriate Zimbabwean writer NoViolet Bulawayo. The first chapter of the book, "Hitting Budapest", initially presented as a story in the Boston Review,NoViolet Bulawayo, "Hitting Budapest", Boston Review, 1 November 2010. won the 2011 Caine Prize for African Writing,Helon Habila, "We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo – review", The Guardian, 20 June 2013.Margaret Busby, "We Need New Names, By NoViolet Bulawayo" (review), The Independent, 7 June 2013. with the chair of judges Hisham Matar saying that the gang of "poor and violated" children portrayed in it were reminiscent of A Clockwork Orange. "Zimbabwe's NoViolet Bulawayo wins Caine writing prize", BBC News, 12 July 2011. A coming-of-age story, We Need New Names tells of the life of a young girl named Darling, first as a 10-year-old in Zimbabwe, navigating a world of chaos and degradation with her friends, and later as a teenager in the Midwest United States, where a better future seems about to unfold when she goes to join an aunt working there. We Need New Names was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize (2013), "We Need New Names", The Man Booker Prize. the Guardian First Book Award shortlist (2013), and a Barnes & Noble Discover Award finalist (2013). It was the winner of the inaugural Etisalat Prize for Literature (2013), and won the prestigious Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for debut work of fiction. It won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction (2013).
Description	We Need New Names is the 2013 debut novel of expatriate Zimbabwean writer NoViolet Bulawayo. The first chapter of the book, "Hitting Budapest", initially presented as a story in the Boston Review,NoViolet Bulawayo, "Hitting Budapest", Boston Review, 1 November 2010. won the 2011 Caine Prize for African Writing,Helon Habila, "We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo – review", The Guardian, 20 June 2013.Margaret Busby, "We Need New Names, By NoViolet Bulawayo" (review), The Independent, 7 June 2013. with the chair of judges Hisham Matar saying that the gang of "poor and violated" children portrayed in it were reminiscent of A Clockwork Orange. "Zimbabwe's NoViolet Bulawayo wins Caine writing prize", BBC News, 12 July 2011. A coming-of-age story, We Need New Names tells of the life of a young girl named Darling, first as a 10-year-old in Zimbabwe, navigating a world of chaos and degradation with her friends, and later as a teenager in the Midwest United States, where a better future seems about to unfold when she goes to join an aunt working there. We Need New Names was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize (2013), "We Need New Names", The Man Booker Prize. the Guardian First Book Award shortlist (2013), and a Barnes & Noble Discover Award finalist (2013). It was the winner of the inaugural Etisalat Prize for Literature (2013), and won the prestigious Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for debut work of fiction. It won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction (2013).

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Name	We Need New Names
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Authors	NoViolet Bulawayo
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Genre	Bildungsroman
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Language	English
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Pages	304
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Media_type	Print, Electronic
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Isbn	978-0316230810
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Pub_date	May 2013
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Release_date	May 2013
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