Fiction2018

This Mournable Body

Tsitsi Dangarembga
Overview
Region

Southern Africa

Zimbabwe

Era

Contemporary

Language

English

Genre

Fiction

About This Work

Third in Dangarembga's trilogy, following Tambudzai in her 40s, financially desperate and morally compromised in a Zimbabwe collapsing under Mugabe. Written in second person, implicating the reader.

Literary Significance

Booker Prize shortlist 2020; Dangarembga was arrested at a protest in Zimbabwe the year the book was published

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