'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
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