This Mournable Body

Fiction

Author: Tsitsi Dangarembga Publisher: Graywolf Press ISBN: 978-1-55597-812-9 Price: R223

About 30 years after her acclaimed international debut with

Nervous Conditions, Zimbabwean author Tsitsi Dangarembga returns with a sequel.

In This Mournable Body, the lead character is anxious about her prospects after leaving a stagnant job, and she finds herself living in a run-down youth hostel in downtown Harare. For reasons that include her grim financial prospects, she moves to a widow’s boarding house and finds work as a biology teacher.

Her sequel is a searing novel about the obstacles facing women in Zimbabwe.