The House of Hunger
Martin Luther King, Jr author Dambudzo Marechera author Peter Godwin editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Published:28th Apr '22
Should be back in stock very soon
This paperback is available in another edition too:
- Paperback£5.99(9780241752241)
'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
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 Soyinka
A terrible beauty is born out of the urgency of his vision -- Angela Carter
The metaphors are simultaneously so unclichéd and so apt that he reinvigorates the language -- China Mieville on THE BOOKS THAT MADE ME
Like 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 *ISBN: 9780241544259
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 9mm
Weight: 134g
176 pages