House of Hunger

One of African literature''s most fascinating and unorthodox figures'' Brian Chikwavabr>br>''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''br>br>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.br>br>''A writer who considered fiction a "form of combat", complex, challenging - and uniquely potent'' Guardianbr>br>''Like overhearing a scream'' Doris Lessingbr>br>''A terrible beauty is born out of the urgency of his vision'' Angela Carter>

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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

Product details

• Authors: Martin Luther King Jr., Martin Luther King, Dambudzo Marechera
• Assisted by: Peter Godwin (Introduction), Godwin Peter (Introduction)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 28.04.2022
• EAN: 9780241544259
• ISBN: 978-0-241-54425-9
• No. of pages: 176
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 9 mm
• Series: Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Short Stories (single author), Short Stories, Zimbabwe, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary