Dambudzo Marechera

The House of Hunger

Intellectual's fragmented interior world amid African colonial disintegration

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Dambudzo Marechera

Zimbabwean novelist and poet whose The House of Hunger is a savage, expressionist account of colonial Rhodesia and psychic devastation. His short, incandescent life and refusal of all categorization made him a cult figure.

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