\'No, I don\'t hate being black. I\'m just tired of saying it\'s beautiful. No, I don\'t hate myself. I\'m just tired of people bruising their knuckles on my jaw.\'A novella with the force of a screaming trumpet flare, Dambudzo Marechera\'s seminal literary debut explores a body and spirit exiled from the land and the self. An inimitable and internationally admired writer, his profound ambivalence and wry, existential sensibility was forged in this iconic book.