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Nervous Conditions – Tsitsi Dangarambga

R190.00

Nervous Conditions is a novel by Zimbabwean author Tsitsi Dangarembga, first published in the United Kingdom in 1988 by the Women’s Press. The semi-autobiographical novel focuses on the story of a Shona family in post-colonial Rhodesia during the 1960s. Nervous Conditions is the first of a proposed trilogy, with The Book of Not published in 2006 as the second novel in the series. The novel illustrates the dynamic themes of race, colonialism, and gender during the post-colonial conditions of present-day Zimbabwe. The title is taken from the introduction by Jean-Paul Sartre to Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth.

Price: R190.00

Edition: Reprint

Published: 1997

Publishers: Zimbabwe Publishing House

ISBN: 0949225797

Condition: Paperback in very good condition – minor shelf wear around the edges. Internally in near-pristine condition – very clean and tightly bound.

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Nervous Conditions is a novel by Zimbabwean author Tsitsi Dangarembga, first published in the United Kingdom in 1988 by the Women’s Press. The semi-autobiographical novel focuses on the story of a Shona family in post-colonial Rhodesia during the 1960s. Nervous Conditions is the first of a proposed trilogy, with The Book of Not published in 2006 as the second novel in the series. The novel illustrates the dynamic themes of race, colonialism, and gender during the post-colonial conditions of present-day Zimbabwe. The title is taken from the introduction by Jean-Paul Sartre to Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth.

Price: R190.00

Edition: Reprint

Published: 1997

Publishers: Zimbabwe Publishing House

ISBN: 0949225797

Condition: Paperback in very good condition – minor shelf wear around the edges. Internally in near-pristine condition – very clean and tightly bound.

Additional information

Weight 330 g