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Nervous conditions

Author
Dangarembga, Tsitsi.

 

Publisher
New York : Seal Press, 2004, c1998.
Description
204 p. ; 21 cm.
Call #
FIC Dangarembga
Summary
Tambu, an adolescent living in colonial Rhodesia of the '60s, seizes the opportunity to leave her rural community to study at the missionary school run by her wealthy, British-educated uncle. With an uncanny and often critical self-awareness, Tambu narrates this skillful first novel by a Zimbabwe native.
Subjects
Women Zimbabwe -- Girls Africa -- Zimbabwe -- Zimbabwe Colonial influence
ISBN #
9781580051347

 

ID #
924864

 

Reviews and Notes

Summary/Annotation ->  This stunning first novel, set in colonial Rhodesia during the 1960s, centers on the coming of age of a teenage girl, Tambu, and her relationship with her British-educated cousin Nyasha. Tambu, who yearns to be free of the constraints of her rural village, thinks her dreams have come true when her wealthy uncle offers to sponsor her education. But she soon learns that the education she receives at his mission school comes with a price.

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