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Book Overview
A sequel to Nervous Conditions, this is a powerful and engaging story about one young woman's quest to redefine the personal and political forces that threaten to engulf her. As its title suggests, this is also a book about denial and unfulfilled expectations and about the theft of the self that remains one of colonialism's most pernicious legacies. The novel disrupts any comfortable sense of closure to the dilemmas of colonial modernity explored in Nervous Conditions and as such is a fitting sequel.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0954702379
ISBN13:9780954702373
Release Date:December 2006
Publisher:Ayebia Clarke Publishing
Length:256 Pages
Weight:0.57 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 5.0" x 7.7"
Customer Reviews
3 ratings
Emotion unfolded...
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
It is a good sequel, I never understood the first book. I thought it was just a period piece on African relations between middle class and poor class citizens in a Colonized Nation but with this sequel Tsitsi goes deeper and shows us the raw emotions of the entire story. One could say the character is rather sad, subservient and bemoan her fate at the end of the book or one could sympathise with her and see the book as the Story of a young woman constantly at odds both with her emotions and the world that seems to expect much from her.
A must to read.
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
A very engrossing read but not an easy one. I am left tangled in knots from the story of Tambu. There are so many issues this young protaganist faces growing up in colonial Africa while a guerrilla war is raging. Inner turmoil everywhere she turns, with every expectation (her own and her elders) a new struggle of what to do, and no one to guide her through puberty and yound womanhood. Her self-effacing character made my heart break. Please, Ms. Tsitsi Dangarembga, I pray you are writing a sequel now to The Book of Not.
Pleased!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
Very pleased with prompt service, especially considering that the book was shipped from the UK during the holiday season. The book arrived sooner than expected!
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