McDougal Littell Literature Connections: Nervous Conditions Student Editon Grade 12 1996 (Hardcover) by McDougal Littel (Prepared for publication by)

from EadieB

This novel is an inspiring journey about the 'struggle' faced by Tambudzai, a black female, in a male-domineering culture. It is set in Zimbabwe, Africa and the descriptions are vivid. It is also a tale that takes the reader into the minds and souls of a number of very interesting characters. It ...

from whitewavedarling

Dangarembga's prose is smooth, and her characters are incredibly engaging. The further I got into this book, the more I was entralled with both the narrative and her style, and the book as a whole was so visual that even the most unfamiliar settings and situations were easy to visualize and under...

from Paula_Smith

Woman - women Culture Difference mission - missionary - missionaries tradition escape freedom assimilation struggle These seven words jumped into my thoughts when I sat down at my kitchen table to attempt my first review of Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga. The time is set in Rhodeshia - ...

from labfs39

I was not sorry when my brother died. Nor am I apologising for my callousness, as you may define it, my lack of feeling. Thus begins this coming of age novel of Tambu, a young Zimbabwean girl straddling the divides between men and women, white and black, uneducated and educated, rural and urban,...

from souloftherose

This is the first novel written by Tsitsi Dangarembga and it won The Commonwealth Writers' Prize. According to wikipedia it was the first novel written in English by a black Zimbabwean woman. The novel is partly auto-biographical in nature. The story is set in Zimbabwe and told from the perspecti...