Dangarembga Tsitsi
Dangarembga Tsitsi - This Mournable Body - Paperback
Dangarembga Tsitsi - This Mournable Body - Paperback
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Description: Shortlisted FOR THE 2020 Booker Prize A searing novel about the obstacles facing women in Zimbabwe by one of the country's most notable authors Anxious about her prospects after leaving a stagnant job Tambudzai finds herself living in a run - down youth hostel in downtown Harare. For reasons that include her grim financial prospects and her age she moves to a widow's boarding house and eventually finds work as a biology teacher. But at every turn in her attempt to make a life for herself she is faced with a fresh humiliation until the painful contrast between the future she imagined and her daily reality ultimately drives her to a breaking point. In This Mournable Body Tsitsi Dangarembga returns to the protagonist of her acclaimed first novel Nervous Conditions to examine how the hope and potential of a young girl and a fledgling nation can sour over time and become a bitter and floundering struggle for survival. As a last resort Tambudzai takes an ecotourism job that forces her to return to her parents impoverished homestead. It is this homecoming in Dangarembga's tense and psychologically charged novel that culminates in an act of betrayal revealing just how toxic the combination of colonialism and capitalism can be.
Title: This Mournable Body
Author(s): Dangarembga Tsitsi
Publisher: Graywolf Press U. S.
Barcode: 9781555978129
Pages: 304 Pages
Publication Date: 8/7/2018
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
Description: Shortlisted FOR THE 2020 Booker Prize A searing novel about the obstacles facing women in Zimbabwe by one of the country's most notable authors Anxious about her prospects after leaving a stagnant job Tambudzai finds herself living in a run - down youth hostel in downtown Harare. For reasons that include her grim financial prospects and her age she moves to a widow's boarding house and eventually finds work as a biology teacher. But at every turn in her attempt to make a life for herself she is faced with a fresh humiliation until the painful contrast between the future she imagined and her daily reality ultimately drives her to a breaking point. In This Mournable Body Tsitsi Dangarembga returns to the protagonist of her acclaimed first novel Nervous Conditions to examine how the hope and potential of a young girl and a fledgling nation can sour over time and become a bitter and floundering struggle for survival. As a last resort Tambudzai takes an ecotourism job that forces her to return to her parents impoverished homestead. It is this homecoming in Dangarembga's tense and psychologically charged novel that culminates in an act of betrayal revealing just how toxic the combination of colonialism and capitalism can be.
Title: This Mournable Body
Author(s): Dangarembga Tsitsi
Publisher: Graywolf Press U. S.
Barcode: 9781555978129
Pages: 304 Pages
Publication Date: 8/7/2018
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
