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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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    <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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