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by Petina Gappah
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Availability:In StockContributor:Petina GappahPublish date:2017-02-07Pages:288
Language:EnglishPublisher:Picador USAISBN-13:9781250117922ISBN-10:1250117925UPC:9781250117922Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, World LiteratureBook Topic:AfricaSize:7.90 x 5.00 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.6195Product ID:SCA9A4340H

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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Picador USAISBN-13:9781250117922ISBN-10:1250117925UPC:9781250117922Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, World LiteratureBook Topic:AfricaSize:7.90 x 5.00 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.6195Product ID:SCA9A4340H
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.
Publisher: Picador USA

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