This Mournable Body

Tambudzai, the heroine of Nervous Conditions, is now grown up and living in Harare. Ambitious and proud, she has walked out of a job with no future and lands in a shabby hostel for young people in the city centre. Each attempt to start again brings a new humiliation, and the distance between the life she once imagined and the one she has drives her close to collapse. With nothing left to try, she takes work with an ecotourism venture that returns her to her family's poor rural homestead, a homecoming that ends in betrayal. Her story echoes the fading hopes of a young nation.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Set in

Zimbabwe

First published

2018

Author's age

59 when first published

ISBN

9781555978129 (Graywolf Press, United States)

9780571355525 (Faber & Faber, United Kingdom)

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