Nervous Conditions

Rating: 4 (18 votes)

Tags: Set in Zimbabwe Female author

Description:

A modern classic from the Booker-shortlisted author of This Mournable Body The groundbreaking first novel in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s award-winning trilogy, Nervous Conditions, won the Commonwealth Writers Prize and has been “hailed as one of the 20th century’s most significant works of African literature” (The New York Times). 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. She yearns to be free of the constraints of her rural village and thinks she’s found her way out when her wealthy uncle offers to sponsor her schooling. But she soon learns that the education she receives at his mission school comes with a price.

Reviews:

Jess Colombera (7 months ago)	24 Apr, 2024 oof what a ride. while this whole book made me so angry and aggressive (babamukuru) there … wasn’t much on anything else. i do feel for all the women in this book - nyasha especially - but at the end it was a book where not much happened apart from getting the reader to hate almost every male in that town lmao
Cathy CTG (7 months ago)	08 May, 2024 The whole trilogy is excellent.
Audrey Morris (2 weeks ago)	03 Dec, 2024 Read 13 Feb 16