The House of Hunger (Penguin Modern Classics) - Softcover

Marechera, Dambudzo

 
9780241544259: The House of Hunger (Penguin Modern Classics)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0241544254 ISBN 13: 9780241544259
Verlag: Penguin Classics, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

'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

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Dambudzo Marechera was born in 1952 in Vengere, the township of Rusape, in the east of what was then Rhodesia. He was the third of nine children in a family which became destitute once his father was killed in a road accident in 1966. he gained a scholarship to study at New College, Oxford, where he was sent down in 1976 to live out his exile in Britain in a succession of squats for another six years. He hammered out the first draft of The House of Hunger on his portable typewriter in a matter of weeks. It won the Guardian First Novel Prize and was translated into six languages. Marechera died in 1987 after being diagnosed with AIDS.

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Verlag
Penguin Classics
Erscheinungsdatum
2022
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0241544254
ISBN 13 
9780241544259
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
176
Kontakt zum Hersteller
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