Summary & Study Guide We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo

by BookRags

This study guide includes the following sections: Plot Summary, Chapter Summaries & Analysis, Characters, Objects/Places, Themes, Style, Quotes, and Topics for Discussion.

57 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 5, 2014

Reviews

[Consuelo · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very difficult scene early on.

[Izzy · Rating 4 out of 5]

The scenes in Zambia with Bastard and Chima, Godknows and Darling, and others complement the scenes in Michigan and indiana. There is a wonderful mix of Queen’s English, Ebonics, and jive American English that can be well appreciated in the audio version. One has to do a little investigation to figure out that Budapest is the once white suburb of the Paradise where the Zambian portion is set; there are amazing scenes that one can picture of the children harvesting guavas in Budapest, coming across the suicide of the white lady in Budapest, and of the black power gang that trashes the house in Budapest. In America the crazy Zambian with whom only Darling can communicate; watching porn in the basement in Kalamazoo, the wedding in South Bend of Aunt Esmolina’s ex with the ugly fat white lady, and the transAtlantic phone calls to the old friends and playmate are all quite poignant. I found this book easier to digest and enjoy than the more political satire which followed it. Both speak to the disaster that Zambia became under the Old Horse.

[Jeremy · Rating 1 out of 5]

Unfinished

Chapters 11-15 are not included! How can they sell something that is missing a significant chunk of the book? Will be trying to get a refund.