Author
Tsitsi Dangarembga
1 award win, 1 nomination across 2 books.
Nervous Conditions
205 pages
This is a book about the oppression of women by men.Men in a society have more rights than women and the women have to succumb to anything that men say.It also touches on religion and explains the roles of men and women.It also tells us about a young lady 'Nyasha" who left her home with her prents for England and went through a process called ASSIMILATION,which means that he suffered cultural schizophrenia.
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This Mournable Body
340 pages
"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.
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