Glory

In the nation of Jidada, where the citizens are animals, the long-ruling Old Horse is overthrown in a coup engineered by his own deputy, a scheming horse named Tuvius Delight Shasha. The promised liberation curdles fast into a new tyranny. Into this upheaval returns Destiny, a young goat who fled the country years earlier, drawn home to reckon with the massacre that destroyed her mother's family and the wounds the nation refuses to name. Told through a clamor of voices and Twitter-like chatter, Bulawayo's animal fable retells the fall of Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe as a story of revolution, betrayal, and the long memory of the oppressed.