The House of HungerThis explosive, award-winning novella of growing up in colonial Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), told in exquisite, imaginative prose, touches the readers nerve through the authors harrowing portrait of lives disrupted by white settlers, a young disillusioned black man, and individual suffering in the 1960s and 1970s. Marecheras 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 madness, violence, despair, and survival. |
Contents
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| 11 | |
The Transformation of Harry | 102 |
The Slow Sound of His Feet | 108 |
The Christmas Reunion | 112 |
Burning in the Rain | 117 |
Protista | 123 |
Black Skin What Mask | 131 |
Thoughttracks in the Snow | 139 |
The Sound of Snapping Wires | 147 |
Fear and Loathing Out of Harare | 150 |
Things that Go Bump in the Night | 153 |
Dread in Harare | 157 |
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