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    <![CDATA[Nervous Conditions]]>
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    <![CDATA[This stunning first novel, set in colonial Rhodesia during the 1960s, centers on the coming of age of a teenage girl, Tambu, and her relationship with her British-educated cousin Nyasha. Tambu, who yearns to be free of the constraints of her rural village, especially the circumscribed lives of the women, thinks her dreams have come true when her wealthy uncle offers to sponsor her education. But she soon learns that the education she receives at his mission school comes with a price. At the school she meets the worldly and rebellious Nyasha, who is chafing under her father's authority. Raised in England, Nyasha is so much a stranger among her own people that she can no longer speak her native language. Tambu can only watch as her cousin, caught between two cultures, pays the full cost of alienation.]]>
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        <name><![CDATA[Tsitsi Dangarembga]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 15 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Apr 26 17:39:44 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Actually, I don't remember much about this book, despite having studied it only about six months ago. It was well written; the narrator, Tambu, was acutely observant and expressed herself well. Coming off reading <em>Anthills of the Savannah</em>, I found <em>Nervous Conditions</em> much easier to get into.<br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21059820">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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