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Nervous Conditions
A timeless coming-of-age tale, and a powerful exploration of cultural imperialism, Nervous Conditions charts Tambu’s journey to personhood in a nation that is also emerging.
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From the booker prize shortlisted author of This Mournable Body, one of the BBC’s 100 Women for 2020
‘Unforgettable’ Alice Walker
‘This is the book we’ve been waiting for’ Doris Lessing
‘A unique and valuable book.’ Booklist
‘an absorbing page-turner’ Bloomsbury Review
‘A masterpiece’ Madeleine Thien
‘Arresting’ Kwame Anthony Appiah
Two decades before Zimbabwe would win independence and ended white minority rule, thirteen-year-old Tambudzai Sigauke embarks on her education. On her shoulders rest the economic hopes of her parents, siblings, and extended family, and within her burns the desire for independence. A timeless coming-of-age tale, and a powerful exploration of cultural imperialism, Nervous Conditions charts Tambu’s journey to personhood in a nation that is also emerging.
‘With its searing observations, devastating exploration of the state of “not being”, wicked humour and astonishing immersion into the mind of a young woman growing up and growing old before her time, the novel is a masterpiece.’ Madelein Thien
Unforgettable . . . Not to be missed.
This is the novel we have been waiting for . . . It will become a classic.
An urgent story beautifully told.
This is a great writer coming into being. She has a wonderful sense of relationships, a wonderful sense of people, a wonderful sense of place. She exposes the oppression, of women in particular, in a manner that I think is beautiful, because you can't disagree. She is not making heavy weather of this - it is as natural as the grass grows.
I couldn't put it down.
Tsitsi Dangarembga is the author of three novels: Nervous Conditions, winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize; This Mournable Body, shortlisted for the Booker Prize and The Book of Not. She won the PEN Pinter Prize in 2021 and the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. Dangarembga is also a filmmaker, playwright, and the director of the Institute of Creative Arts for Progress…
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