The House of Hunger

Author: Marechera, Dambudzo

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 17 April 2025 by Penguin Books Ltd (Penguin Classics) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Penguin Archive' series.

Paperback | 128 pages
179 x 110 x 9 | 82g

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books‘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.