Nervous Conditions
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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Tambu, a poor Shona girl in 1960s Rhodesia, gets her dead brother's spot at her uncle's mission school. There she meets her cousin Nyasha, the uncle's daughter, who has lived in England and cannot quite come home.
Yes. Nervous Conditions won the African Commonwealth Writers Prize in 1989. Tsitsi Dangarembga has continued the Tambu trilogy with The Book of Not (2006) and This Mournable Body (2020), the third of which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
Tsitsi Dangarembga's Tambu trilogy has three books: Nervous Conditions, The Book of Not, and This Mournable Body. The trilogy follows the same protagonist across decades of Zimbabwean history.
Nervous Conditions was written by Tsitsi Dangarembga, published in 1988 by Seal Press.
Nervous Conditions is 205 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, Nervous Conditions takes most readers 3 to 4 hours to finish.
Nervous Conditions is a standalone novel by Tsitsi Dangarembga, not part of a series.
Nervous Conditions is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.
