We Need New Names
**SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE **
Ten-year-old Darling has a choice: it''s down, or out
''To play the country-game, we have to choose a country. Everybody wants to be the USA and Britain and Canada and Australia and Switzerland and them. Nobody wants to be rags of countries like Congo, like Somalia, like Iraq, like Sudan, like Haiti and not even this one we live in - who wants to be a terrible p...
**SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE **
Ten-year-old Darling has a choice: it''s down, or out
''To play the country-game, we have to choose a country. Everybody wants to be the USA and Britain and Canada and Australia and Switzerland and them. Nobody wants to be rags of countries like Congo, like Somalia, like Iraq, like Sudan, like Haiti and not even this one we live in - who wants to be a terrible p...
