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The House of Hunger

by Dambudzo Marechera · 1978

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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.

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adult
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short · 160 pages
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