Anxious about her prospects after leaving a stagnant job, Tambudzai finds herself living in a run-down youth hostel in downtown Harare. For reasons that include her grim financial prospects and her age, she moves to a widow's boarding house and eventually finds work as a biology teacher. But at every turn in her attempt to make a life for herself, she is faced with a fresh humiliation, until the painful contrast between the future she imagined and her daily reality ultimately drives her to a breaking point. 
In This Mournable Body, Tsitsi Dangarembga examines how the hope and potential of a young girl and a fledgling nation can sour over time and become a bitter and floundering struggle for survival.

This Mournable Body

Literature & Fiction

Dangarembga, Tsitsi

Contemporary

Faber&Faber

ONE OF THE BBC'S 100 WOMEN FOR 2020\nSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 BOOKER PRIZE\n'MAGNIFICENT.' Guardian 'A MASTERPIECE.' New York Times 'MARVELLOUS.' Sara Collins 'EXTRAORDINARY.' Madeleine Thien 'HYPNOTIC.' Daily Telegraph 'SEARING.' Sefi Atta 'A MAVERICK VOICE.' A Igoni Barrett 'A MUST READ.' Helon Habila 'SUBTLE AND INTELLIGENT.' TLS 'A MAJOR ACHIEVEMENT.' Literary Review 'DAZZLING.' FT\nHere we meet Tambudzai, living in a youth hostel in downtown Harare after leaving a stagnant job. Proud, and yearning for success, Tambu attempts to make a new life for herself - but at every turn, she is faced with a fresh humiliation, until the contrast between the future she imagined and her daily reality ultimately drives her to a breaking point.\nIn this tense and psychologically charged novel, Tsitsi Dangarembga channels the hope and potential of one young girl and a fledgling nation to lead us on a journey to discover where lives go after hope has departed.

This Mournable Body: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2020

FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF THIS MOURNABLE BODY and NERVOUS CONDITIONS 
ONE OF THE BBC'S 100 WOMEN FOR 2020\nAs Zimbabwe emerges into independence, Tambudzai Sigauke embarks on her second year at the Young Ladies' College of the Sacred Heart. Determined to excel, Tambu exhausts herself with her efforts to climb to the top of the school's honour rolls. The further she pushes herself, however, the farther she feels from any reward; and the roots of colonialism threaten to trip her at every step. The sequel to Nervous Conditions is as moving, darkly witty, and riveting as its predecessor.

The Book of Not: Tsitsi Dangarembga

This story exlpores the alienation of two young African girls - Nyasha, brought up in England and now a stranger amongst her own people, and Tamba, who leaves her village for the pricey mission school.

Nervous conditions (Women's Press fiction)

The Women"s Press

Used Softcover Edition published by Seal Press, N.Y, 1989, 204 pages in Very Good Condition. Text is clean (except for Chapter 7 - pages 132-133, pages 136-148 have some notes along the margins. The rest of the text is free of marks, writing, rips, tears, creases, loose or bent pages, Spine is firm without any creases. Cover shows minor shelf wear. Story is set in Rhodesia during the 1960s, Tambu an adolescent girl who yearns to be free of the constraints of her rural village, thinks her dreams have come true when a wealthy uncle sponsors her schooling. But she soon learns that her education comes with a price. There at school she meets her British-educated cousin, the worldly and rebellious Nyasha. An evocative coming of age story narrated with compelling insights and veracity. "Nervous Conditions" uses sharply etched portrait of human devastation to show the inherent evils of colonialism. A bold and riveting novel about one's struggle with authority and reconciling one's divided loyalties. Tambu must slowly reach some painful soul-searching conclusions about her family, her country under colonization and herself as a woman. A unique novel, sure to be a classic. We ship within 24 hours of your purchase with a Delivery Confirmation.

Nervous Conditions

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Seal Pr

This story exlpores the alienation of two young African girls - Nyasha, brought up in England and now a stranger amongst her own people, and Tamba, who leaves her village for the pricey mission school.

Nervous conditions

Literary

Zimbabwe Pub. House

The Mournable Body

Genre Fiction

Jacana Media

A searing novel about the obstacles facing women in Zimbabwe, by one of the country’s most notable authors
Anxious about her prospects after leaving a stagnant job, Tambudzai finds herself living in a run-down youth hostel in downtown Harare. For reasons that include her grim financial prospects and her age, she moves to a widow’s boarding house and eventually finds work as a biology teacher. But at every turn in her attempt to make a life for herself, she is faced with a fresh humiliation, until the painful contrast between the future she imagined and her daily reality ultimately drives her to a breaking point.
In This Mournable Body, Tsitsi Dangarembga returns to the protagonist of her acclaimed first novel, Nervous Conditions, to examine how the hope and potential of a young girl and a fledgling nation can sour over time and become a bitter and floundering struggle for survival. As a last resort, Tambudzai takes an ecotourism job that forces her to return to her parents’ impoverished homestead. It is this homecoming, in Dangarembga’s tense and psychologically charged novel, that culminates in an act of betrayal, revealing just how toxic the combination of colonialism and capitalism can be.

This Mournable Body: A Novel (Nervous Conditions Series)

Graywolf Press

A novel of colonization and its effects focuses on the coming-of-age story of Tamba, a teenage girl living in Rhodesia, whose relationship with her British-educated cousin will cause her to question the constraints of her life in the village. Original.

Seal Press

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This Mournable Body

This Mournable Body: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2020

This Mournable Body

The Book of Not: Tsitsi Dangarembga

Nervous conditions (Women's Press fiction)

Nervous Conditions

Nervous conditions

The Mournable Body

This Mournable Body: A Novel (Nervous Conditions Series)

Nervous Conditions