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Black Sunlight
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing
| Author:
Dambudzo Marechera
| Language:
English
| Format:
Paperback
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing
Author:
Dambudzo Marechera
Language:
English
Format:
Paperback
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In this dark and deeply radical novel, Dambudzo Marechera offers a visceral account
of a photojournalist’s entanglement with a terrorist organisation.
In an unnamed totalitarian state, the members of Black Sunlight – a group of violent
anarchists – are the only ones fighting for change and justice. As their actions push the
country further towards chaos, journalist Christian records it all through the lens of his
camera.
Christian’s life so far has been one of immense struggle and alienation. So when he
becomes tangled in the Black Sunlight uprising, he is determined to remain a bystander
and nothing more; to capture their actions without praise or condemnation.
In evocative flashes of sex, violence, war, and myth, Christian’s story explodes in a
labyrinthine plot, told through a chaotic stream-of-consciousness that mirrors the
nation’s crumbling climate. Black Sunlight is a piercing insight into the darkness of the
human psyche and a raw examination of a nation in battle against itself – where
everything political turns deeply personal.
‘Complex, challenging – and uniquely potent.’ Guardian
‘A writer in constant quest for his real self.’ Wole Soyinka.
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In this dark and deeply radical novel, Dambudzo Marechera offers a visceral account
of a photojournalist’s entanglement with a terrorist organisation.
In an unnamed totalitarian state, the members of Black Sunlight – a group of violent
anarchists – are the only ones fighting for change and justice. As their actions push the
country further towards chaos, journalist Christian records it all through the lens of his
camera.
Christian’s life so far has been one of immense struggle and alienation. So when he
becomes tangled in the Black Sunlight uprising, he is determined to remain a bystander
and nothing more; to capture their actions without praise or condemnation.
In evocative flashes of sex, violence, war, and myth, Christian’s story explodes in a
labyrinthine plot, told through a chaotic stream-of-consciousness that mirrors the
nation’s crumbling climate. Black Sunlight is a piercing insight into the darkness of the
human psyche and a raw examination of a nation in battle against itself – where
everything political turns deeply personal.
‘Complex, challenging – and uniquely potent.’ Guardian
‘A writer in constant quest for his real self.’ Wole Soyinka.
About Author
Dambudzo Marechera was born in 1952 in Rusape, Rhodesia (modern-day
Zimbabwe) and was a short story writer, playwright, and poet.
Known for his eccentric personality and pioneering fiction, Marechera was awarded a
scholarship to Oxford University but was shortly expelled. Three years later, Marechera
won the 1979 Guardian Prize for First Fiction for his novel, The House of Hunger and
famously shocked the guests by hurling plates at the venue's chandelier. Leeds
University and the University of Sheffield later offered him positions as a Writer in
Residence.
Marechera also went on to publish Black Sunlight in 1980 and wrote a collection of
plays, prose narratives, and poems but lived in frequent poverty during his time in
England, suffering through various health issues. On his return to Zimbabwe in 1982,
Marechera fell further into ill health and homelessness, dying only five years later at the
age of 35. His work continued to influence a generation of writers, inspiring a movement
of social criticism that focused on post-independent Zimbabwe.
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