“You want nothing more than to break away from the implacable terror of every day you spend in your country – where you can no longer afford the odd dab of peanut ...

A woman confronts the realities of life in Zimbabwe and reckons with her past in this follow-up to the 1988 classic Nervous Conditions There is a moment in this magnificent novel when the central ...

The opening of “This Mournable Body” is jarring. Author Tsitsi Dangarembga, nominated for the 2020 Booker Prize, begins the novel in the second person, and while readers adjust to this perspective, ...

Tsitsi Dangarembga’s first novel, Nervous Conditions, set in 1960s’ British Rhodesia [now Zimbabwe], followed the bright young village girl Tambudzai’s determination to escape poverty and how, through ...

Tsitsi Dangarembga’s debut novel Nervous Conditions (1988) was the first by a black Zimbabwean woman to be published in English. In 2018, it was named by the BBC as one of the top 100 books to have ...