Peter Carty

Zimbabwe’s chaotic history has at least produced some outstanding fiction

Tsitsi Dangarembga’s This Mournable Body, sees her female protagonist lurch from crisis to crisis, mirroring her country’s struggles

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  • This Mournable Body

    Tsitsi Dangarembga

    Faber, pp. 366, £14

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