Nervous Conditions

FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF

THIS MOURNABLE BODY,ONE OF THE BBC'S 100 WOMEN FOR 2020

'

UNFORGETTABLE' Alice Walker

'THIS IS THE BOOK WE'VE BEEN WAITING FOR' Doris Lessing

'A UNIQUE AND VALUABLE BOOK.' Booklist

'AN ABSORBING PAGE-TURNER' Bloomsbury Review 'A MASTERPIECE' Madeleine Thien

'ARRESTING' Kwame Anthony Appiah

Two decades before Zimbabwe would win independence and ended white minority rule, thirteen-year-old Tambudzai Sigauke embarks on her education. On her shoulders rest the economic hopes of her parents, siblings, and extended family, and within her burns the desire for independence. A timeless coming-of-age tale, and a powerful exploration of cultural imperialism,

Nervous Conditions charts Tambu's journey to personhood in a fledgling nation.

'With its searing observations, devastating exploration of the state of «not being», wicked humour and astonishing immersion into the mind of a young woman growing up and growing old before her time, the novel is a masterpiece.'

Madelein Thien