‘One of African literature’s most fascinating and unorthodox figures’ Brian Chikwava ‘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 literary scene in 1978 with this vivid roar of a book exploring township life in pre-independence Zimbabwe. Rejecting what he saw as the narrow stereotypes of African literature, Marechera’s stories portrayed a world flashing with violence and anarchic humour, as his narrator expresses his desperate alienation – from his family, from his student friends, from Zimbabwe itself. ‘A writer who considered fiction a “form of combat”, complex, challenging – and uniquely potent’ Guardian ‘Like overhearing a scream’ Doris Lessing ‘A terrible beauty is born out of the urgency of his vision’ Angela Carter
The House of Hunger
UncategorizedDambudzo Marechera
2025. Penguin Books, Limited.
Softcover, 18cmx11cm, 128 pages
ISBN 9780241752241
RM41.00
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