Glory centers around the unexpected fall of Old Horse, a long-serving leader of a fictional country, and the drama that follows. Inspired by the coup that ousted Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe’s president of nearly four decades, Bulawayo’s bold, vividly imagined novel shows a country imploding, narrated by a chorus of animal voices who unveil the ruthlessness and cold strategy required to uphold the illusion of absolute power, and the imagination and bullet-proof optimism to overthrow it completely.
