Verdict: sticks, in the main
In Dambudzo Marechera’s classic House of Hunger, there’s a brief, intriguing episode involving a “star cut out of toilet paper”. As the narrator is trying to reach out for the star it wafts away. “It flew upwards …It floundered. It sailed straight for the window. On its underside was written the legend ZIMBABWE.”
I revisited the passage because recently I received a copy of a new, re-edited edition of the novel from Heinemann. It comes with an interview Marechera had with himself and several short stories not in the 1978 edition, some of them previously unpublished. It was launched at a Marechera symposium held earlier this year at Oxford University, the same institution from which the author was expelled.
Book Details
Please register or log in to comment
