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They Called You Dambudzo - A Memoir (Paperback)

Flora Veit-Wild

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This book is a memoir with a ‘double heartbeat’. At its centre is the author’s relationship with the late Zimbabwean writer, Dambudzo Marechera, whose award-winning book The House of Hunger marked him as a powerful, disruptive, perhaps prophetic voice in African literature.

Flora Veit-Wild is internationally recognised for her significant contribution to preserving Marechera’s legacy. What is less known about Marechera and Veit-Wild is that they had an intense, personal and sexual relationship. This memoir explores this: the couple’s first encounter in 1983, amidst the euphoria of the newly independent Zimbabwe; the tumultuous months when the homeless writer moved in with his lover and her family; the bouts of creativity once he had his own flat followed by feelings of abandonment; the increasing despair about a love affair that could not stand up against reality and the illness of the writer and his death of HIV related pneumonia in August 1987.

What follows are the struggles Flora went through once Dambudzo had died. On the one hand she became the custodian of his life and work, on the other she had to live with her own HIV infection and the ensuing threats to her health.

General

Imprint: Jacana Media
Country of origin: South Africa
Release date: August 2021
Authors: Flora Veit-Wild
Dimensions: 235 x 155 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 978-1-4314-3049-9
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Literary
Books > Humanities > History > African history > General
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Books > History > African history > General
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Books > Biography > Literary
LSN: 1-4314-3049-8
Barcode: 9781431430499

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Thu, 14 Oct 2021 | Review by: Kelvin B K.

This book got me smiling nun stop its an amazing book

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