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'I don't hate being black. I'm just tired of saying it's beautiful.'
Irreverent and uncompromising, Dambudzo Marechera rejected what he saw as the narrow stereotypes of African literature, and was a fearless critic of his country. He created an immediate impact with THE HOUSE OF HUNGER. In this semi-autobiographical work, the narrator expresses his desperate alienation - from his brutal family, from his student friends, from the squalor of township life and from Zimbabwe itself. This novella, and the other short stories here, portray a world of madness and chaos in an explosive style that flashes with both violence and humour.
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"Marechera has in him the stuff and substance that go to make a great writer."-Doris Lessing
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Winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize, 1979 and first published in 1978, "The House of Hunger" is a selection of interconnected short stories that tell of Zimbabwe in chaos. In a style somewhat reminiscent of Joyce's "Dubliners", the stories deal with psychological and social alienation. Dambudzo Marechera's work is not material typically associated with "African" literature. His stories are psychologically, rather than politically, motivated as his depictions of living in exile and outsiderhood show.
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- PublisherPenguin Classics
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0141187158
- ISBN 13 9780141187150
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages176
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