This Mournable Body

Tsitsi Dangarembga

Original title: This mournable body

earliest edition we have, 2018 Jacana Media, 2019 paperback 296 pages

"Anxious about her prospects after leaving a stagnant job, Tambudzai finds herself living in a run-down youth hostel in downtown Harare. For reasons that include her grim financial prospects and her age, she moves to a widow's boarding house and eventually finds work as a biology teacher. But at every turn in her attempt to make a life for herself, she is faced with a fresh humiliation, until the painful contrast bet...

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Editions we hold

This Mournable Body edition · 2021 · Faber & Faber, Limited · 384 pages · 9780571355525
This Mournable Body edition · 2020 · Faber & Faber, Limited · 384 pages · 9780571355518
This Mournable Body edition · 2020 · Faber & Faber, Limited · 9780571355532
The Mournable Body paperback · 2019 · Jacana Media · 296 pages · 9781431428304
This Mournable Body edition · 2018 · Graywolf Press · 9781555978624
This mournable body edition · 2018 · Graywolf Press · 284 pages · 9781555978129

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