Description
Book Synopsis''One of African literature''s most fascinating and unorthodox figures'' Brian Chikwava
''When all else fails, don''t take it in silence: scream like hell, scream like Jericho was tumbling down, serenaded by a brace of trombones, scream''
Dambudzo Marechera burst onto the literary scene in 1978 with this vivid roar of a book exploring township life in pre-independence Zimbabwe. Rejecting what he saw as the narrow stereotypes of African literature, Marechera''s stories portrayed a world flashing with violence and anarchic humour, as his narrator expresses his desperate alienation - from his family, from his student friends, from Zimbabwe itself.
''A writer who considered fiction a form of combat, complex, challenging - and uniquely potent'' Guardian
''Like overhearing a scream'' Doris Lessing
''A terrible beauty is born out of the urgency of his vision'' Angela Carter
Trade ReviewA profound, even if exaggeratedly self-aware writer, an instinctive nomad and bohemian in temperament, Marechera was a writer in constant quest for his real self -- Wole Soyinka
A terrible beauty is born out of the urgency of his vision -- Angela Carter
The metaphors are simultaneously so unclichéd and so apt that he reinvigorates the language -- China Mieville on THE BOOKS THAT MADE ME
Like overhearing a scream -- Doris Lessing
A writer who considered fiction a 'form of combat', his work is complex, challenging - and uniquely potent
-- Chris Power * The Guardian *
