In My Room/Office/Studio
"A writer and nothing else: a man alone in a room with the English language, trying to get human feelings right." - John K. Hutchen.
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
I Got My Things and Left
‘I got my things and
left.’ That’s the first line that opens his novel, House of Hunger. This, I tell you, threw me back in heaves of
laughter. So simple yet its punch sent
me reeling from its power. What follows is a powerfully written prose, vivid
and staggering with a slight tinge of humour. I’m reading this book for the
second time! Dambuzdo Marechera is such a powerful storyteller. This Zimbabwean
writer and poet still remains one of my main inspirations. I really find novels
therapeutic and somewhat meditative. Whoever still believes that novels are not
worth reading should think again – long and hard.
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