Inzwakazi uDebo

“A haunting evocation of the nature of small defeats. Only a writer steeped in Zimbabwean life – with her unflinching gaze fixed on the individual, and with a social vision that brooks no sentimentality – could have given us the fraught heroine of this starkly written novel. Tsitsi Dangarembga proves yet again that hers in a maverick voice”

“When Tambudzai first set out to rebuild the financial and social status she spent her youth working for, she could not have known that every move she made would bring her one step closer to sacrificing the dignity of her family and community. her choices seem innocuous; she moves from a run down youth hostel in downtown Harare to a widow’s boarding house, and she finds work, first as a biology teacher and then in the opportunistic field of “ecotourism”. But when a long overdue homecoming culminates in a humiliating spectacle, tambudzai is forced to consider whether it was her circumstances or her decisions that brought her to this breaking point.”

Author:Tsitsi Dangarembga