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    <body><![CDATA[currently teaching this book to my sophomore honors english class... i wish you could sit in listening to my kids figure out what they think about gender roles, racial politics, cultural differences, even mental illness. it was a good read for me as well as a good text for my students -- really powe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/84881">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a tremendously compelling book, a story woven from the threads of four female lives in 1960s Rhodesia: Tambu, the protagonist, a young girl who gains entry to a more materially comfortable way of life through education; Nyasha, her cousin, who spent five years in England as a child; Maiguru,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56295174">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed this book because its comment on the colonial and patriarchal situation in Africa really reflects the complexity of the issue. Colonialism, and what it did for (or to) colonized countries is not simply a black and white issue. Certainly institutionalized racism and colonial policies did ha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72174472">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[this is a compelling coming-of-age story about a poor girl in colonial rhodesia. the first-person narrative is often quite beautiful, particularly in its psychological approach to etiquette. though not explicitly political (at least in the sense that the revolution which would rename the country &quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51903939">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[When I first started reading this book, I immediately compared it to the last book I read, <em>The Power of One</em> because it was in the same setting, though from the opposite point of view. And in truth, it did not live up to the quality of <em>The Power of One</em>. The plot was rather confusing at times and was ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65577833">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a wonderful book. The best novel I read as a college English major, bar none. The opening sentence is one of the most surprising, if not shocking, that I have ever read. My only complaint is that the ending seems rushed and abrupt. However, the other attributes of the book more than make up ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44424020">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[an interesting account of the role of women in post colonial Africa. There are times when the language appears almost like it's pandering to a a certain audience, but overall I thought it was quite informative.<br/>an interesting account of the role of women in post colonial Africa. There are times ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60074540">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga<br/><br/>The first sentence is “I was not sorry when my brother died.”  How could you not read this book now?  Tambudzai or Tambu is 13-years-old, and she is growing up in late 1960s Zimbabwe.  How could she be so cold as to not care about her brother...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63548459">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the stupidest, most simplistic books I've ever read. &quot;Nervous Conditions&quot; isn't only a sylistic nightmare, littered with pointless adverbs and terrible sentence structure; it's also a story about a girl who remains unremittingly heroic, without a single flaw or second thought. This ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80487640">more...</a>]]></body>
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