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The House of Hunger

By Martin Luther King, Jr. and Dambudzo Marechera
Series: Penguin Archive
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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books The disenchanted, the disadvantaged and the disinherited seem, at times of deep crisis, to summon up some sort of genius that enables them to perceive and capture the appropriate weapons to carve out their destiny. Wielding his... Read More
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The House of Hunger

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books

The disenchanted, the disadvantaged and the disinherited seem, at times of deep crisis, to summon up some sort of genius that enables them to perceive and capture the appropriate weapons to carve out their destiny.

Wielding his galvanising and idiosyncratic voice, this collection of electrifying and, at times, consoling speeches and essays from one of the 20th century's most inspiring and beloved Civil Rights leaders sharply examines life and history with an uplifting message of compassion.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780241752241

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 17 April 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Penguin Classics

Contributors:

  • Introduction by Peter Godwin

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 9.0mm

Width: 110.0mm

Height: 180.0mm

Weight: 82g

Pages: 128

Collections

Dambudzo Marechera Fiction General Fiction Literary Fiction Martin Luther King, Jr. Penguin Books Penguin Classics Series: Jack Ryan, Jr. Series: Penguin Archive

About the Author

Dambudzo Marechera was born in 1952 in Vengere, the township of Rusape, in the east of what was then Rhodesia. He was the third of nine children in a family which became destitute once his father was killed in a road accident in 1966. he gained a scholarship to study at New College, Oxford, where he was sent down in 1976 to live out his exile in Britain in a succession of squats for another six years. He hammered out the first draft of The House of Hunger on his portable typewriter in a matter of weeks. It won the Guardian First Novel Prize and was translated into six languages. Marechera died in 1987 after being diagnosed with AIDS.

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