WATCH: NoViolet Bulawayo in Conversation with Novuyo Tshuma

Greenlight welcomes award-winning author of the Booker-prize finalist We Need New Names, NoViolet Bulawayo, for the launch of her new novel, Glory. Named a most anticipated book of 2022 by Vulture, Buzzfeed, and Oprah Daily, and hailed as “genius” (Jason Reynolds) and “like nothing we’ve read before” (Book Riot), Bulawayo’s new blockbuster of a novel chronicles the decline of an oppressive regime and the chaotic kinetic potential for real liberation that rises in its wake.

After the unexpected fall of Old Horse, the long-serving leader of a fictional country, a vividly imagined nation of animals wrestle for power and reconciliation, unveiling the ruthlessness and strategy required to uphold the illusion of absolute power and the imagination and optimism needed to overthrow it.

Bulawayo is joined in conversation with acclaimed author Novuyo Tshuma (House of Stone).

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