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This Mournable Body by Tsitsi Dangarembga [in Booklist]

06 Feb, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, African, Audio, Fiction, Repost

Of Dangarembga’s award-winning, semi-autobiographical Tambudzai Sigauke trilogy, only this finale gets an audio adaptation. Tambu struggled to be educated amid Zimbabwe’s decades-long civil war in Nervous Conditions (winner of the 1989 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize) and survived a convent education in The Book of Not (2006). Here, Tambu is a not-so-young...

Nervous Conditions by by Tsitsi Dangarembga

07 Jan, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, African, Fiction, Young Adult Readers

The first sentence of Tsitsi Dangarembga's semi-autobiographical novel sets a haunting tone: "I was not sorry when my brother died." With his death, 13-year-old Tambu is presented with a profound opportunity: even though she's a girl, as the now-eldest child in her poor village family...

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