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Author Dangarembga, Tsitsi, author

Title This mournable body / Tsitsi Dangarembga
Published London : Faber & Faber Limited, 2020
©2018

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 MELB  896.03 D1825/M  AVAILABLE
Description 363 pages ; 23 cm
Series Dangarembga, Tsitsi. Nervous conditions ; 3
Summary "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."--Amazon.com
Notes Originally published: Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, 2018
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2020
Subject Biology teachers -- Zimbabwe -- Harare -- Fiction
Boardinghouses -- Zimbabwe -- Harare -- Fiction
Ecotourism -- Zimbabwe -- Harare -- Fiction
Humiliation -- Fiction
Women -- Psychology -- Fiction
Choice (Psychology) -- Fiction
Identity (Psychology) -- Fiction
Homecoming -- Fiction
Harare (Zimbabwe) -- Fiction
Genre/Form Psychological fiction.
Domestic fiction.
LC no. be2020009141
ISBN 9780571355518 (hardback)