The book of memory
First American edition.
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Publication
2016 - Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
69,000 words, Guess
Page Count
276 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivebookofmemory0000gapp_l5o1
- Internet Archivebookofmemory0000gapp_y8z3
- ISBN-100865479070
- ISBN-139780865479074
- Library of Congress Control Number2015022198
and 3 more
- OCLC Control Number911135069
- Better World Books9780865479074
- Open LibraryOL27199980M
Classifications
- DDC823/.92
- LCCPR9390.9.G37 B66 2016
- LCCPR9390.9.G37B66 2016
Description
Memory, the narrator of Petina Gappah's The Book of Memory, is an albino woman languishing in Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison in Harare, Zimbabwe, after being sentenced for 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?
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