Review
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
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
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.
