marechera

in the midst of studying for two finals, writing three papers, doing a presentation, and trying to figure out the cost of spring break (at the moment durban is looking like a slightly better deal than cape town, we really would like to get a tan), i got to read dambudzo marechera's 'house of hunger' for class, which is a crazy surrealist commentary on life in zimbabwe when zimbabwe was rhodesia. violence against female characters aside, it reads a little like african vonnegut with a splash of hemingway, a lot of intense description and fighting between people. very interesting.