This Mournable Body

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This Mournable Body is a critically acclaimed novel by Zimbabwean writer Tsitsi Dangarembga that follows a woman's psychological and social unraveling amid post-independence Harare.

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instanceOf novel
author Tsitsi Dangarembga NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin Zimbabwe NERFINISHED
coverArtist Graywolf Press design team NERFINISHED
criticalReception praised for its prose style
praised for its unflinching portrayal of disillusionment
depicts postcolonial Zimbabwean society
struggles of an educated but unemployed woman
exploresTheme economic precarity
gender and patriarchy
postcolonial identity
trauma
urban alienation
follows psychological unraveling of a woman in Harare
genre literary fiction
psychological fiction
social novel
hasISBN 978-1-55597-812-9
hasSequelRelation third book in Tambudzai trilogy
hasSubject mental health
migration and return
neoliberal capitalism in Zimbabwe
post-independence disillusionment
literaryPeriod 21st-century literature
mainCharacter Tambudzai Sigauke NERFINISHED
marketedAs standalone novel
narrativePerspective third-person limited
notableRecognition critically acclaimed
originalLanguage English
pageCount 296
partOfSeries Tambudzai trilogy NERFINISHED
placeOfPublication United States NERFINISHED
prequel Nervous Conditions NERFINISHED
The Book of Not NERFINISHED
publicationYear 2018
publisher Graywolf Press NERFINISHED
setting Harare NERFINISHED
settingPeriod post-independence Zimbabwe
shortlistedFor 2020 Booker Prize NERFINISHED

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