Product Description

This sequel to the award-winning Nervous Conditions traces Tambu s continuing quest to redefine the personal, political, and historical forces at work in her complex world.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #144349 in Books
• Published on: 2006-07-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 246 pages

Review
A most intensely felt and remembered book that reproduces the feel, sight, sound, and emotion of an African convent boarding school a quarter of a century ago.... No book I have read conveys so powerfully and truthfully the wounds of cultural colonialism. --Terrence Ranger, University of Oxford

This is, as its title suggests, a book about denial and unfulfilled expectations, about the theft of the self that remains one of colonialism s most pernicious legacies. Through all of this, however, it remains funny and engaging, a tale of adolescent rivalry and misadventure, narrated in a style that blends the sardonic with the lyrical. --Chris Warnes, University of Cambridge

This novel disrupts any comfortable sense of closure to the dilemmas of colonial modernity explored in Dangarembga s Nervous Conditions. Life happens to Tambu and she must make another journey.... This is a most engrossing and provocative sequel [and one] that already begs another. I can t wait for the next book! --Nana Wilson-Tagoe, SOAS, London

About the Author
Tsitsi Dangarembga lived and studied in both England and Germany before returning to her native Zimbabwe. She is not only a novelist and playwright, but also a noted film director. She currently is working on the third novel in the trilogy that began with Nervous Conditions and continues in The Book of Not.

Customer Reviews

A must to read.
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.

Emotion unfolded...
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.

Pleased!
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!