β Jenna Scott
π Fiction
π
2020
π Paige Press, LLC
π English
β 156 KB
π 1 views
β¦ LIBER β¦
This Mournable Body
β Scribed by Tsitsi Dangarembga
- Publisher
- Graywolf Press
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 682 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1555978622
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
A searing novel about the obstacles facing women in Zimbabwe, by one of the country's most notable authors
Anxious about her prospects after leaving a stagnant job, Tambudzai finds herself living in a run-down youth hostel in downtown Harare. For reasons that include her grim financial prospects and her age, she moves to a widow's boarding house and eventually finds work as a biology teacher. But at every turn in her attempt to make a life for herself, she is faced with a fresh humiliation, until the painful contrast between the future she imagined and her daily reality ultimately drives her to a breaking point.
In This Mournable Body , Tsitsi Dangarembga returns to the protagonist of her acclaimed first novel, Nervous Conditions , to examine how the hope and potential of a young girl and a fledgling nation can sour over time and become a bitter and floundering struggle for survival. As a last resort, Tambudzai takes an ecotourism job that forces...
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