We Need New Names

By NoViolet Bulawayo

Subjects: Zimbabweans, Emigración e inmigración, Fiction, cultural heritage, Domestic fiction, Muchachas, Fiction, family life, general, Émigration et immigration, Roman zimbabwéen de langue anglaise, Families, Girls, Familias, Coming of age, Fiction, family life, Violencia política, Children, Traductions françaises, New York Times reviewed, Immigration and emigration, Fiction, Political violence, Emigration and immigration, Africa, fiction, Social conditions, Terrorism, Zimbabwean fiction (English), Ficción, Family life

Description: 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.