House of hunger : short stories

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Title:

Author:

Marechera, Dambudzo.

ISBN:

9780435909864

Personal Author:

Marechera, Dambudzo.

Publication Information:

Oxford : Heinemann, 1993.

Physical Description:

154 p.

Series:

African writers series.

Series Title:

African writers series.

General Note:

Contents:House of hunger Burning in the rain The transformation of Harry Black skin what mask The writer's grain The slow sound of his feet a The Christmas reunion Thought-tracks in the snow Are there people living there? Characters from the Bergfrith.

Subject Term:

Fiction.

Short stories, African (English)

Violence -- Africa.

Colonization -- Social aspects.

Added Title:

House of hunger.

Burning in the rain.

The transformation of Harry.

Black skin what mask.

The writer's grain.

The slow sound of his feet.

The Christmas reunion.

Thought-tracks in the snow.

Are there people living there?.

Characters from the Bergfrith.

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Summary

Winner of the Guardian fiction prize, this novella and nine short stories describe life in a Zimbabwean township. They are about the brutalization of the individual's mental processes, until madness, violence and despair become the normal state of affairs for families in black urban areas.