Dambudzo Marechera

The House of Hunger

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Produktbeschreibung

'No, I don't hate being black. I'm just tired of saying it's beautiful. No, I don't hate myself. I'm just tired of people bruising their knuckles on my jaw.'A novella with the force of a screaming trumpet flare, Dambudzo Marechera's seminal literary debut explores a body and spirit exiled from the land and the self. An inimitable and internationally admired writer, his profound ambivalence and wry, existential sensibility was forged in this iconic book.

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Produktdetails

• Penguin Archive
• Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd (UK)
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. April 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 181mm x 111mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 150g
• ISBN-13: 9780241752241
• ISBN-10: 0241752248
• Artikelnr.: 72488627

Autorenporträt

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.

Rezensionen

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