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This Mournable Body: A Novel Audiobook, by Tsitsi Dangarembga Play Audiobook Sample

This Mournable Body: A Novel Audiobook

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Read By: Adenrele Ojo Publisher: Highbridge Audio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 7.67 hours at 1.5x Speed 5.75 hours at 2.0x Speed Series: The Nervous Conditions Series Release Date: August 2018 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781684410378

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

22

Longest Chapter Length:

46:16 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

18:52 minutes

Average Chapter Length:

31:27 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

4

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Publisher Description

Anxious about her prospects after leaving a stagnant job, Tambudzai finds herself living in a run-down youth hostel in downtown Harare. For reasons that include her grim financial prospects and her age, she moves to a widow's boarding house and eventually finds work as a biology teacher. But at every turn in her attempt to make a life for herself, she is faced with a fresh humiliation, until the painful contrast between the future she imagined and her daily reality ultimately drives her to a breaking point.

In This Mournable Body, Tsitsi Dangarembga returns to the protagonist of her acclaimed first novel, Nervous Conditions, to examine how the hope and potential of a young girl and a fledgling nation can sour over time and become a bitter and floundering struggle for survival.

As a last resort, Tambudzai takes an ecotourism job that forces her to return to her parents' impoverished homestead. It is this homecoming, in Dangarembga's tense and psychologically charged novel, that culminates in an act of betrayal, revealing just how toxic the combination of colonialism and capitalism can be.

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“The novel explores how race, gender, class, and age are at play in Zimbabwe and the overwhelming strength of these forces in the face of even the most optimistic and ambitious women.”

— Vanity Fair

Quotes

  • “Brilliantly dramatizes the tragic ironies of life in a country where keeping yourself afloat may mean swallowing your pride.”

    — New Yorker
  • “[A] masterpiece…Dangarembga writes with intimacy and compassion.”

    — New York Times
  • “Dangarembga gives us something rare: a sparkling antiheroine we find ourselves rooting for.”

    — Washington Post

Awards

  • Shortlisted for the Booker Prize

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About Tsitsi Dangarembga

Tsitsi Dangarembga is the author of three books in the Nervous Conditions, series. In 2021 she was honored with the PEN Award for Freedom of Expression. She is also a winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. She is the director of the Institute of Creative Arts for Progress in Africa Trust. She lives in Zimbabwe.

About Adenrele Ojo

Adenrele Ojo is an actress, dancer, and audiobook narrator, winner of over a dozen Earphones Awards and the prestigious Audie Award for best narration in 2018. She made her on-screen debut in My Little Girl, starring Jennifer Lopez, and has since starred in several other films. She has also performed extensively with the Philadelphia Dance Company. As the daughter of John E. Allen, Jr., founder and artistic director of Freedom Theatre, the oldest African American theater in Pennsylvania, is no stranger to the stage. In 2010 she performed in the Fountain Theatre’s production of The Ballad of Emmett Till, which won the 2010 LA Stage Alliance Ovation Award and the Los Angeles Drama Critics Award for Best Ensemble. Other plays include August Wilson’s Jitney and Freedom Theatre’s own Black Nativity, where she played Mary.