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This Mournable Body

Tsitsi Dangarembga
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Region

Southern Africa

Zimbabwe

Era

Contemporary

Language

English

Genre

Fiction

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

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