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Sweet Medicine (Paperback): Panashe Chigumadzi

Sweet Medicine (Paperback)

Panashe Chigumadzi

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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.

Sweet Medicine is a thorough and evocative attempt at grappling with a variety of important issues in the postcolonial context: Tradition and modernity; feminism and patriarchy; spiritual and political freedoms and responsibilities; poverty and desperation; and wealth and abundance.

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Imprint: Blackbird Books
Country of origin: South Africa
Release date: April 2017
Authors: Panashe Chigumadzi
Dimensions: 216 x 118 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 978-1-928337-12-6
Categories: Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN: 1-928337-12-0
Barcode: 9781928337126

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