by Tsitsi Dangarembga · The Women's Press Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780704341005
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«Nervous Conditions» is the historical fiction novel by Tsitsi Dangarembga, published by The Women's Press Ltd in paperback (208 pages, in English).
It tells the story of Tamba, a young woman who leaves her village to study at a mission school funded by her uncle, and of her cousin Nyasha, raised in England and become a stranger among her own. It addresses the oppression of women, religion, colonialism and the price of cultural assimilation.
Originally published in 1988, it is the first installment of the «Nervous Conditions» trilogy. It won the Africa section of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize in 1989.
For readers interested in African literature, feminism and the consequences of colonialism.
Tsitsi Dangarembga is a Zimbabwean novelist, playwright and filmmaker. Her debut novel, Nervous Conditions (1988), which was the first to be published in English by a Black woman from Zimbabwe, was named by the BBC in 2018 as one of the top 100 books that have shaped the world. She has won other literary honours, including the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the PEN Pinter Prize. In 2020, her novel This Mournable Body was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. In 2022, Dangarembga was convicted in a Zimbabwe court of inciting public violence, by displaying, on a public road, a placard asking for reform; her conviction was later overturned.
