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Can I read The House of Hunger on EtoBox?
The House of Hunger by Marechera, Dambudzo is a children's book available to read on EtoBox.
What is The House of Hunger about?
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.Marechera made an immediate impact with the publication of The House of Hunger. The novella and nine short stories, most of them set in Zimbabwe, symbolise both home and country as the 'house of hunger', the place of madness and violence and despair. Marechera describes a world in which tenderness has long given way to the tactics of survival, and he does so in a style at once explosive and loaded with angry humour.
Who reads The House of Hunger?
It is typically read by young readers, and the parents and educators who guide them.
Common subject areas: juvenile, young adult.
- Author
- Marechera, Dambudzo
- Publisher
- Heinemann
- Published
- 1978
- Language
- EN
- Category
- children's
- Subjects
- Children'S, Juvenile
- Rating
- 3.95 / 5 (350 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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