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The House of Hunger
The House of Hunger | Dambudzo Marechera
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This 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.
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charl08
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Excited to read this one!

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Bookwomble
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“If you are a writer for a specific nation or a specific race, then fuck you.”

I've only read one of the authors on this list of 10 obscure writers, and it isn't Marechera, though I think he'll be the second before too long.
Looking at his Wikipedia entry, he had a troubled and, sadly, too short life. I don't subscribe to the notion that artists must suffer for their art, but it seems he did 😕
https://lithub.com/10-more-writers-nobody-reads/

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Beckys_Books
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Great opinion piece

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If you are interested in the life and work of the fantastic late Zimbabwean writer Dambudzo Marechera, then I have great news. The Dambudza Marechera archive is now online and you are able to look at documents/ poems/ interviews/ photos, listen to audio material and watch video material.

This is the link: https://rs.cms.hu-berlin.de/marecheraarchive/pages/home.php?login=true

charl08 Great news. Thanks for sharing. 7y
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