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Nervous Conditions
About this book
FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF
THIS MOURNABLE BODY,
ONE OF THE BBC'S 100 WOMEN FOR 2020
'
UNFORGETTABLE' Alice Walker
'THIS IS THE BOOK WE'VE BEEN WAITING FOR' Doris Lessing
'A UNIQUE AND VALUABLE BOOK.' Booklist
'AN ABSORBING PAGE-TURNER'
Bloomsbury Review
'A MASTERPIECE' Madeleine Thien
'ARRESTING' Kwame Anthony Appiah
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. A timeless coming-of-age tale, and a powerful exploration of cultural imperialism,
Nervous Conditions charts Tambu's journey to personhood in a fledgling nation.
'With its searing observations, devastating exploration of the state of "not being", wicked humour and astonishing immersion into the mind of a young woman growing up and growing old before her time, the novel is a masterpiece.'
Madelein Thien
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Landing Page
- Praise
- Title Page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Introduction
- One
- Two
- Three
- Four
- Five
- Six
- Seven
- Eight
- Nine
- Ten
- Interview with the Author
- About the Author
- By the Same Author
- Copyright
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