This Mournable Body

A Novel

Tsitsi Dangarembga

 

Forthcoming

Synopsis

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 her to return to her parents’ impoverished homestead. It is this homecoming, in Dangarembga’s tense and psychologically charged novel, that culminates in an act of betrayal, revealing just how toxic the combination of colonialism and capitalism can be.

Review

Many good novels written by men have come out of Africa, but few by Black women. This is the novel we have been waiting for ... it will become a classic. - Doris Lessing

Author

Tsitsi Dangarembga is a Zimbabwean author and filmmaker.