{"product_id":"9781644450710","title":"Nervous Conditions : A Novel","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eNervous Conditions\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Tsitsi Dangarembga\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA modern classic from the Booker-shortlisted author of \u003ci\u003eThis Mournable Body\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe groundbreaking first novel in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s award-winning trilogy, \u003ci\u003eNervous Conditions\u003c\/i\u003e,  won the Commonwealth Writers Prize and has been “hailed as one of the  20th century’s most significant works of African literature” (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e).  Two decades before Zimbabwe would win independence and ended white  minority rule, thirteen-year-old Tambudzai Sigauke embarks on her  education. On her shoulders rest the economic hopes of her parents,  siblings, and extended family, and within her burns the desire for  independence. She yearns to be free of the constraints of her rural  village and thinks she’s found her way out when her wealthy uncle offers  to sponsor her schooling. But she soon learns that the education she  receives at his mission school comes with a price.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Dangarembga’s sentences are chromatic, rich and impres-sively precise with wonderful detail.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e(UK)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Dangarembga investigates the ironic psychological demands of global capitalism on a country whose citizens have been fractured by that system. Complex and flawed, they are more than symbols. . . . Dangarembga treats supreme cruelty with sublime reserve.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Dangarembga is a magpie for evocative detail. . . . Dangarembga’s depiction of [Tambu], abject and vulnerable, yet struggling ever onwards, is reminiscent of Jean Rhys at her best.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Spectator\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e(UK)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A great writer. . . . She has a wonderful sense of relationships, a wonderful sense of people, a wonderful sense of place. She ex-poses the oppression, of women in particular, in a manner that I think is beautiful, because you can’t disagree. She is not mak-ing heavy weather of this—it is as natural as the grass grows.”\u003cb\u003e—Chinua Achebe\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Tsitsi Dangarembga opened up the idea that a black woman from Zimbabwe could write a book. There’s a whole genera-tion of Zimbabwean women who are so grateful to Tsitsi for being a forerunner.”\u003cb\u003e—Petina Gappah\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781644450710\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Graywolf Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40832961741006,"sku":"9781644450710","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_e38ccd4c-e72d-4a15-80eb-06fe4af2dad9.jpg?v=1643361032","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781644450710","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}