Nervous Conditions

A modern classic from the Booker-shortlisted author of This Mournable Body The groundbreaking first novel in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s award-winning trilogy, Nervous Conditions , won the Commonwealth Writers Prize and has been “hailed as one of the 20th century’s most significant works of African literature” ( The New York Times ). 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 e