Last Thursday, we started reading a new book in class. It is called, Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga. It is a semi-autobiographical novel about a girl named Tambu, who grows up in Rhodesia during the 1960s and 1970s. The story focuses on themes of gender, race, class, and cultural change and how it affected Tambu.
The first two chapters are mainly about the education that Tambu and Nhamo, her brother, received. Though it also talks about their way of life and Tambu's relationships with her family members. Honestly, I was not really intrigued by the beginning of the book but hopefully that will change. However, the first sentence of the book: "I was not sorry when my brother died," did raise my curiosity. If for no other reason, I want to keep reading the book so I can learn the story behind Nhamo's death.
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