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The Book of Memory

By Petina Gappah

The Book of Memory Contemporary literature

The Book of Memory

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Memory, the narrator of The Book of Memory, is an albino woman languishing in Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison in Harare, Zimbabwe, where she has been convicted of murder. As part of her appeal her lawyer insists that she write down what happened as she remembers it. The death penalty is a mandatory sentence for murder, and Memory is, both literally and metaphorically, writing for her life. As her story unfolds, Memory reveals that she has been tried and convicted for the murder of Lloyd Hendricks, her adopted father. 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 the past and the present, Memory weaves a compelling tale of love, obsession, the relentlessness of fate and the treachery of memory.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
274
Release Date:
2016-06-02
Publication Date:
2016-06-02
Publisher:
Faber And Faber Ltd.
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0571249914
ISBN13:
9780571249916
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
235 g
Height:
130 cm
Width:
198 cm
Thickness:
22 cm
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