Nervous Conditions - Softcover

Dangarembga, Tsitsi

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1580051340 ISBN 13: 9781580051347

Publisher: Seal Press, 2006

Synopsis

A novel of colonization and its effects focuses on the coming-of-age story of Tamba, a teenage girl living in Rhodesia, whose relationship with her British-educated cousin will cause her to question the constraints of her life in the village. Original.

About this title

Review:

"This is the novel we have been waiting for...I am sure it will be a classic."

About the Author:

Tsitsi Dangarembga was born and brought up in Zimbabwe. She studied medicine and psychology before turning to writing full-time and becoming the first Black woman in Zimbabwe to publish a novel in English. Nervous Conditions was the recipient of the 1989 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Fiction, the book has become a modern classic. Nervous Conditions was also chosen as one of the 'Top Ten Books of Africa's 100 Best Books of the 20th Century' by a Pan African Initiative in 2002. Dangarembga's sequel to Nervous Conditions entitled The Book of Not was published in 2006 by Ayebia. In addition, she has written a play entitled She No Longer Weeps. Having studied at the German Film and Television Academy, Dangarembga now also works as a scriptwriter, consultant and film director. She is the founder of International Images Film Festival for Women (IIFF). She is currently working on the third novel in the trilogy and lives in Zimbabwe.

About this edition

• Publisher: Seal Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1580051340
• ISBN 13: 9781580051347
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256