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The Book of Memory

Hardcover • 2015 • 1. edition

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.

Book details

ISBN

9780571296842

Publisher

Faber & Faber

Published year

2015

Language

Edition

1

Original title

The Book of Memory

Format

Hardcover

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