Description
In The Book of Memory, an albino woman named Memory is languishing in a maximum security prison in Harare, Zimbabwe, where she has been tried and convicted of murder. As part of her appeal, her lawyer insists that she write down what happened; that is, the events that led to the killing of her adoptive father, Lloyd Hendricks. But who was Lloyd Hendricks? Why does Memory feel no remorse for his death? And did everything happen exactly as she remembers?
Moving between the townships of the poor and the suburbs of the rich, and between past and present, the 2009 Guardian First Book Award-winning writer Petina Gappah weaves a compelling tale of love, obsession, the relentlessness of fate, and the treachery of memory.Author: Petina Gappah
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
Published: 02/07/2017
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.62lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.00w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9781250117922
ISBN10: 1250117925
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | World Literature | Africa | Southern Africa
About the Author
PETINA GAPPAH's An Elegy for Easterly (2009) was shortlisted for the Frank O'Connor Prize and the Los Angeles Times First Book Award, and won the 2009 Guardian First Book Award. Formerly an international trade lawyer in Geneva, she lives in Zimbabwe.
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