by Tsitsi Dangarembga · Faber and Faber · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780571355525
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«This Mournable Body» is the novel by Tsitsi Dangarembga, published by Faber and Faber in paperback (384 pages, in English).
The story follows Tambudzai, a Zimbabwean woman scraping by in a youth hostel in central Harare after leaving a stagnant job. Every attempt to build an independent life ends in fresh humiliation, and the contrast between what she dreamed of and her daily reality pushes her toward a breaking point.
The work is the third installment of the Nervous Conditions trilogy and was a finalist for the Booker Prize in 2020.
For readers of contemporary literary fiction and African narrative interested in female characters and psychological tension.
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.
