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A searing novel about the obstacles facing women in Zimbabwe, by one of the countrys 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 widows 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 Dangarembgas tense and psychologically charged novel, that culminates in an act of betrayal, revealing just how toxic the combination of colonialism and capital

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Author

Dangarembga, Tsitsi, author

Publisher

Farrar Straus & Giroux

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781555978129

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Science

Rating

4 / 5 (919 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14