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House of Hunger

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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

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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

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