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by Tsitsi Dangarembga · The Women's Press Ltd · tapa blanda · 208 pages
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Nervous Conditions es una novela de Tsitsi Dangarembga publicada en 1988. La historia explora la alienación de dos jóvenes africanas: Nyasha, criada en Inglaterra y ahora una extraña entre su propia gente, y Tamba, que deja su aldea para asistir a una costosa escuela de misión. La novela aborda temas de opresión de la mujer, religión y la experiencia de la asimilación cultural.
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.
