"Dangarembga's sentences are chromatic, rich and impres-sively precise with wonderful detail." -- The Guardian (UK) "Dangarembga investigates the ironic psychological demands of global capitalism on a country whose citizens have been fractured by that system. Complex and flawed, they are more than symbols. Dangarembga treats supreme cruelty with sublime reserve." -- Los Angeles Review of Books "Dangarembga is a magpie for evocative detail. Dangarembga's depiction of [Tambu], abject and vulnerable, yet struggling ever onwards, is reminiscent of Jean Rhys at her best." -- The Spectator (UK) "A great writer. She has a wonderful sense of relationships, a wonderful sense of people, a wonderful sense of place.

She ex-poses the oppression, of women in particular, in a manner that I think is beautiful, because you can't disagree. She is not mak-ing heavy weather of this--it is as natural as the grass grows." --Chinua Achebe "Tsitsi Dangarembga opened up the idea that a black woman from Zimbabwe could write a book. There's a whole genera-tion of Zimbabwean women who are so grateful to Tsitsi for being a forerunner." --Petina Gappah.