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The Book of Memory

Paperback • 2011 • English

The Book of Memory

By Petina Gappah

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About the book

"'The story you have asked me to tell begins not with the ignominious ugliness of Lloyd's death but on a long-ago day in April when the sun seared my blistered face and I was nine years old and my father and mother sold me to a strange man. I say my father and my mother, but really it was just my mother.' 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 app...Show more

Myths and Legends / Mythic fiction
Social welfare and social services
Thriller: organised crime

Book details

ISBN

9780571249626

Publisher

Faber and Faber

Published year

2011

Language

English

Original title

The Book of Memory

Format

Paperback

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