Her debut novel, Nervous Conditions, is a modern classic, and after The Book of Not, she concludes Tambu’s story with the Booker Prize-shortlisted This Mournable Body. But the literary and film icon never planned for these to take almost four decades.
Icon in African literature. Icon in Zimbabwean film. Our debut cover story had to be on a writer whose work lights a way.
They include books by and about Langston Hughes, W.E.B. Du Bois, Gayl Jones, Henry Dumas, James Baldwin, Mark Twain, the Obamas, and the Clintons.
The story collection “chronicles the dreams and desperations of a disillusioned demographic.”
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