The House of Hunger
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- Paperback
176 pages
- Release Date
15 May 2022
Summary
When all else fails, don’t take it in silence- scream like hell, scream like Jericho was tumbling down, serenaded by a brace of trombones, scream
Dambudzo Marechera burst onto the English literary scene with a bang in 1978 with this vivid roar of a book exploring township life in pre-independence Zimbabwe.
Irreverent and uncompromising, Dambudzo Marechera rejected what he saw as the narrow stereotypes of African literature, and was a fearless critic of his country. The narrato…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241544259 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241544254 |
| Author: | Dambudzo Marechera, Peter Godwin |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Release Date: | 15 May 2022 |
| Weight: | 144g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 12mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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A writer who considered fiction a ‘form of combat’, his work is complex, challenging - and uniquely potent
A profound, even if exaggeratedly self-aware writer, an instinctive nomad and bohemian in temperament, Marechera was a writer in constant quest for his real self – Wole SoyinkaA terrible beauty is born out of the urgency of his vision – Angela CarterThe metaphors are simultaneously so unclichéd and so apt that he reinvigorates the language – China Mieville on THE BOOKS THAT MADE MELike overhearing a scream – Doris Lessing
A writer who considered fiction a ‘form of combat’, his work is complex, challenging - and uniquely potent
– Chris Power * The Guardian *About The Author
Dambudzo Marechera
Dambudzo Marechera was born in 1952 in Vengere, the township of Rusape, in the east of what was then Rhodesia. He was the third of nine children in a family which became destitute once his father was killed in a road accident in 1966. He gained a scholarship to study at New College, Oxford, where he was sent down in 1976 to live out his exile in Britain in a succession of squats for another six years. He hammered out the first draft of The House of Hunger on his portable typewriter in a matter of weeks. It won the Guardian First Novel Prize and was translated into six languages. Marechera died in 1987 after being diagnosed with AIDS.
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