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Virtual Book Launch: NoViolet Bulawayo presents Glory
Join Odyssey Bookshop and our friends at the Greenlight Bookstore as together we welcome award-winning author of the Booker-prize finalist We Need New Names, NoViolet Bulawayo, for the launch of her new novel Glory. This is a Zoom event on Tuesday, March 8 at 7:30 PM. Glory is the Odyssey Bookshop March First Editions Club selection. NoViolet will be joined by Novuyo Tshuma, author of House of Stone.
About the Book
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. Join us for a virtual launch event co-presented with our friends at Greenlight Bookstore in Brooklyn. Together we celebrate this epic work by a major new voice in fiction, interviewed and joined in conversation by a special guest to be announced.
About the Author
NoViolet Bulawayo is the author of We Need New Names, which was a finalist for the Booker Prize and won the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for fiction, and the Etisalat Prize for Literature. Bulawayo grew up in Zimbabwe, and now lives in Texas.
About Novuyo Tshuma
Novuyo Rosa Tshuma is a 2020 Lannan Fiction Fellow and the author of the novel House of Stone, winner of a 2019 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award and the 2019 Bulawayo Arts Award for Outstanding Fiction, and listed for the 2019 Orwell Prize, the 2019 Dylan Thomas Prize, the 2019 Rathbones Folio Prize, and the 2020 Balcones Fiction Prize. She has been invited to give public lectures about House of Stone at the University of Oxford, the Nordic Africa Institute, and Vassar College. Novuyo is a native of Zimbabwe and has lived in South Africa and the USA. Her collection Shadows was published by Kwela in South Africa to critical acclaim and won the 2014 Herman Charles Bosman Prize. She has taught fiction at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and serves as an Assistant Professor of fiction at Emerson College.
To Register
Please click here for the Greenlight Bookstore Webinar link.
Event date:
Tuesday, March 8, 2022 – 7:30pm
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