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Tambudzai lives unemployed in a run-down hostel in the centre of Harare and is worried about her future. Every time she tries to get her life back on track, she is confronted with new humiliations. The painful contrast between the future she had envisioned and worked hard for and her hopeless (everyday) reality leads her to despair and a turning point. When she is finally offered a promising job, she has no idea that it will ultimately rob her of the dignity of her family and her community ... In this exciting and psychologically charged novel, Tsitsi Dangarembga explores the question of what it means to survive as an educated black woman in a post-colonial society - in a country that has lost all hope and is politically and economically devastated. "If you want the suffering to end, then you have to act." Tsitsi Dangarembga.