This explosive, award-winning novella of growing up in colonial Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), told in exquisite, imaginative prose, touches the reader's nerve through the author's harrowing portrait of lives disrupted by white settlers, a young disillusioned black man, and individual suffering in the 1960s and 1970s. Marechera's raw, piercing writings secured his place in African literature as a stylistic innovator and rebel commentator of the ghetto condition. While The House of Hunger is the centerpiece of this collection, readers are also treated to a series of short sketches in which Marechera, with angry humor, further navigates themes of survival, madness, violence, and despair. Other titles by African writers from Waveland Press: Ba, So Long a Letter (ISBN 9781577668060) Beti, The Poor Christ of Bomba (ISBN 9781577664185) Emecheta, Kehinde (ISBN 9781577664192) Equiano, Equiano's Travels (ISBN 9781577664871) Head, The Collector of Treasures and Other Botswana Village Tales (ISBN 9781478607601) Head, Maru (ISBN 9781478607618) Head,  When Rain Clouds Gather (ISBN 9781478607595) La Guma, In the Fog of the Seasons' End (ISBN 9781478600251) Mofolo, Chaka (ISBN 9781478607151) Ngugi-Mugo, The Trial of Dedan Kimathi (ISBN 9781478611318) Nwapa, Efuru (ISBN 9781478611011) Oyono, Houseboy (ISBN 9781577669883) Oyono, The Old Man and the Medal (ISBN 9781478609582) p'Bitek, Song of Lawino & Song of Ocol (ISBN 9781478604723) Plaatje, Mhudi (ISBN 9781478609575) Rifaat, Distant Views of a Minaret and Other Short Stories (ISBN 9781478611288)

The House of Hunger (Penguin Modern Classics)

Literature & Fiction

Dambudzo Marechera

Contemporary

Penguin Books, Ltd.

'One of African literature's most fascinating and unorthodox figures' Brian Chikwava\n'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'\nDambudzo 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.\n'A writer who considered fiction a "form of combat", complex, challenging - and uniquely potent' Guardian\n'Like overhearing a scream' Doris Lessing\n'A terrible beauty is born out of the urgency of his vision' Angela Carter

Penguin Classics

Mindblast is a powerful collection of plays, fiction, poetry and autobiography in which Dambudzo Marechera (1952-1987) turned the full force of his formidable powers on Zimbabwe in transition. Brilliant and infuriating, Mindblast showcases his iconoclasm, his wit and his inventive use of language. This is Marechera's third book after House of Hunger and Black Sunlight and the last published in his lifetime.

AWS: Mindblast

Pearson Education Limited

Outcasts inside a ruined and deserted faculty building tell of their experiences in the post-colonial disaster zone. The story reflects the writer's experience of migrancy, and his refusal of the security of belonging - either to an African identity or to the international literary elite.

Black Insider

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Lawrence & Wishart

This is a stunning collection of Marechera's last writings, evoking city life with its many disparate facets - from the glittering fashion shops in First Street Mall to the tramps in the alleys, and in Marechera's only known piece in Shona, "The Servants' Ball." What at first sight seems peaceful and harmless, is suddenly disrupted by flashes of madness for, in Marechera's universe, everyday life is always haunted by the nightmares of Zimbabwe's past. In the "Concentration Camp," Marechera gives a poetic, deeply felt voice to the dread experienced by former inhabitants of the "keeps," the restricted villages of Zimbabwe's War of Liberation. Often he takes a child's view to measure the horrors of adult society. Gentleness paired with sarcasm marks his hardly known children's stories.

Scrapiron Blues (African Writers Library)

Flora Veit-Wild

United States

Africa World Pr

This explosive, award-winning novella of growing up in colonial Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), told in exquisite, imaginative prose, touches the reader's nerve through the author's harrowing portrait of lives disrupted by white settlers, a young disillusioned black man, and individual suffering in the 1960s and 1970s. Marechera's raw, piercing writings secured his place in African literature as a stylistic innovator and rebel commentator of the ghetto condition.
 While The House of Hunger is the centerpiece of this collection, readers are also treated to a series of short sketches in which Marechera, with angry humor, further navigates themes of survival, madness, violence, and despair.
 Other titles by African writers from Waveland Press:
 Ba, So Long a Letter (ISBN 9781577668060)
 Beti, The Poor Christ of Bomba (ISBN 9781577664185)
 Emecheta, Kehinde (ISBN 9781577664192)
 Equiano, Equiano's Travels (ISBN 9781577664871)
 Head, The Collector of Treasures and Other Botswana Village Tales (ISBN 9781478607601)
 Head, Maru (ISBN 9781478607618)
 Head, When Rain Clouds Gather (ISBN 9781478607595)
 La Guma, In the Fog of the Seasons' End (ISBN 9781478600251)
 Mofolo, Chaka (ISBN 9781478607151)
 Ngugi-Mugo, The Trial of Dedan Kimathi (ISBN 9781478611318)
 Nwapa, Efuru (ISBN 9781478611011)
 Oyono, Houseboy (ISBN 9781577669883)
 Oyono, The Old Man and the Medal (ISBN 9781478609582)
 p'Bitek, Song of Lawino &amp; Song of Ocol (ISBN 9781478604723)
 Plaatje, Mhudi (ISBN 9781478609575)
 Rifaat, Distant Views of a Minaret and Other Short Stories (ISBN 9781478611288)

The House of Hunger

Literary

Waveland Press. Inc.

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The House of Hunger (Penguin Modern Classics)

The House of Hunger (Penguin Modern Classics)

AWS: Mindblast

Black Insider

Scrapiron Blues (African Writers Library)

The House of Hunger