The House of Hunger
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The House of Hunger is a novella/short story collection by Zimbabwean writer Dambudzo Marechera, his first published book, and was published three years after he left university and ten years before h
First edition (UK)
Doris Lessing
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Doris May Lessing was a British novelist – sometimes identified as Rhodesian early in her career – and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007. Lessing was born to British parents in Iran, whe
The House of Hunger
…the Guardian Fiction Prize. At the award ceremony, with typically unconventional and disruptive behaviour, Marechera threw plates at his fellow guests. Doris Lessing wrote that reading Marechera's work was "like overhearing a scream". Because it was so vivid about the experience of growing up in slum conditions in…
Lessing in 2006
Lessing in 1984