The House of Hunger
Dambudzo Marechera
A young mind choking on the violence of the township.
A fevered novella and stories set in the townships of late-colonial Rhodesia, narrated by a young man choking on poverty, violence and thwarted intellect. Marechera's fractured, allusive prose broke sharply with the realist protest tradition, importing a raw modernist energy. Winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize, it made him a disruptive figure and licensed later African writers to pursue formal experiment and interior chaos.
Its legacy. It shared the 1979 Guardian Fiction Prize.
- Author
- Dambudzo Marechera
- First published
- 1978
- Genre
- Novella
- Theme
- East, Southern and North African Literature
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