Leyla Sanai

Zimbabwe’s politics satirised: Glory, by NoViolet Bulawayo, reviewed

Robert Mugabe is portrayed as ‘the Old Horse’ and his vulgar wife as a braying donkey in an allegory reminiscent of Animal Farm

Robert Mugabe and his wife Grace in Harare, August 2002. [Getty Images]
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    NoViolet Bulawayo

    Chatto & Windus, pp. 416, £18

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