Tsitsi Dangarembga

This Mournable Body (eBook, ePUB)

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2020

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

'A story of triumph.' New York Times
'Gives us something rare: a sparkling anti-heroine we find ourselves rooting for.' Washington Post
'Brilliantly dramatises the tragic ironies of life in a country where keeping yourself afloat may mean swallowing your pride.' New Yorker

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 examines 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Faber & Faber
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780571355532
• Artikelnr.: 73584953

Autorenporträt

Tsitsi Dangarembga is the author of two previous novels, including Nervous Conditions, winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. She is also a filmmaker, playwright, and the director of the Institute of Creative Arts for Progress in Africa Trust. She lives in Harare, Zimbabwe.