Back to Contemporary Times

After getting through about 1400 pages of 19th century Gothic literature, I needed to read something more contemporary. Even though Nervous Conditions isn't from this century, it is at least from my lifetime, so it should be a good choice. According to the back of the book it is set in colonial Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, in the 1960s. It has been a while since I read anything by an African author who was not from South Africa (like Nadine Gordimer and J.M. Coetzee), so I am looking forward to a fresh perspective.