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A review by frasersimons
Glory by NoViolet Bulawayo
Did not finish book. Stopped at 12%.
Booker Longlist re read: yeah, no. I can’t handle it. Maybe if it wasn’t satirical, but satire just doesn’t work for me, especially absurdist comedy, then coupled with the zoomorphism or whatever this is, which, at 50 pages in, sure isn’t doing anything of interest to me. Gave it another go, but nope.
I just can’t accept the central conceit so I’m not going to rate this, though I’m DNFing it. Animals dressed up and anthropomorphized to the extent of eating stuff they wouldn’t and wearing stuff they wouldn’t, conjoined with what is going to be something about colonialism, when anthropomorphizing is replicating colonialism, I just can’t process. I would hope that the story becomes About that, at some point. In the meantime, though, I just can’t help but picture this in my head as the most absurd cartoon and am constantly pulled out of the fiction as my brain encounters dissonance.
I just can’t accept the central conceit so I’m not going to rate this, though I’m DNFing it. Animals dressed up and anthropomorphized to the extent of eating stuff they wouldn’t and wearing stuff they wouldn’t, conjoined with what is going to be something about colonialism, when anthropomorphizing is replicating colonialism, I just can’t process. I would hope that the story becomes About that, at some point. In the meantime, though, I just can’t help but picture this in my head as the most absurd cartoon and am constantly pulled out of the fiction as my brain encounters dissonance.