The House of Hunger
- Auteur: Dambudzo Marechera (Zimbabwe)
- Soort boek: Zimbabwaanse roman uit 1978
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: Penguin Archive
- Verschijnt: 17 april 2025
- Omvang: 128 pagina’s
- Uitgave: paperback
- Prijs: £ 5,99
- Boek bestellen bij: Bol / Libris
Dambudzo Marechera The House of Hunger recensie en review
- “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)
- “A writer who considered fiction a “form of combat”, complex, challenging – and uniquely potent.” (The Guardian)
Flaptekst van de roman uit Zimbabwe van Dambudzo Marechera
‘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.
Dambudzo Marechera was born on 4 June 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 on 18 August 1987 in Harare, teh capital of Zimbabwe, after being diagnosed with AIDS.