Sweet medicine / Panashe Chigumadzi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chigumadzi, Panashe, 1991- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Zimbabwe--Harare--Economic conditions--Fiction.

Women.

Economic conditions.

Harare (Zimbabwe)--Economic conditions--Fiction.

Harare (Zimbabwe).

Economic history.

Women--Economic conditions.

Zimbabwe--Harare.

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

xv, 203 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Auckland Park, South Africa : BlackBird Books, 2015.

Summary:

Sweet Medicine takes place in Harare at the height of Zimbabwe's economic woes in 2008. Tsitsi, a young woman, raised by her strict, devout Catholic mother, believes that hard work, prayer and an education will ensure a prosperous and happy future. She does well at her mission boarding school, and goes on to obtain a scholarship to attend university, but the change in the economic situation in Zimbabwe destroys the old system where hard work and a degree guaranteed a good life. Out of university, Tsitsi finds herself in a position much lower than she had set her sights on, working as a clerk in the office of the local politician, Zvobgo. With a salary that barely provides her a means to survive, she finds herself increasingly compromising her Christian values to negotiate ways to get ahead -- Publisher's website.

Notes:

BlackBird Books, an imprint of Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd.

South African Literary Awards - K. Sello Duiker Memorial Literary Award, Winner, 2016

ISBN:

9781928337126

1928337120

OCLC:

928987965

Publisher Number:

99967932747