A modern classic from the Booker-shortlisted author of This Mournable Body
This stunning first novel, set in colonial Rhodesia during the 1960s, centers on the coming of age of a teenage girl, Tambu, and her relationship with her British-educated cousin Nyasha. Tambu, who yearns to be free of the constraints of her rural village, especially the circumscribed...
Immediately hailed as a classic (Atlantic Monthly called it the best contemporary novel on colonialism to be written by an African woman), Nervous Conditions is a wrenching chronicle of the coming of age of Tambu, a teenage girl in 1960s Rhodesia, and her relationship with her...