Nervous Conditions
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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.
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(1 week 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
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Read Around Africa Challenge
Country:
Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe
Language:
EN
Genre:
Historical fiction Feminism
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