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while gorgeous specially commissioned photographs bring its delicious dishes to life

but also a brilliant and singular essayist

and long-term collaborations involve exchange

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The House of Hunger - Dambudzo Marechera curating this document celebrates the previouslyDambudzo 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, Marecheras 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.