Nervous Conditions

'Immediately acclaimed by Alice Walker and Doris Lessing, Nervous Conditions has come to be considered one of Africa's most important novels of the twentieth century.Set in Rhodesia in the 1960s, almost twenty years before Zimbabwe won independence and ended white minority rule, the novel's heroine, 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 "e;personhood,"e; to no longer be part of such an "e;undistinguished humanity."e; With its searing observations, devastating exploration of the state of "e;not being"e;, 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