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The Book of Memory

A Novel

Author: Petina Gappah  

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The stunning debut novel from the award-winning author of An Elegy for Easterly , longlisted for the Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction.

The stunning debut novel from the award-winning author of An Elegy for Easterly, longlisted for the Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction.

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The stunning debut novel from the award-winning author of An Elegy for Easterly , longlisted for the Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction.

The stunning debut novel from the award-winning author of An Elegy for Easterly, longlisted for the Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction.

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Moving between the vibrant townships of the poor and the suburbs and country retreats of the rich, The Book of Memory is a compelling, contemporary tale of love, obsession and the cruelty of fate. Memory is an albino woman, languisihing in prison in Harare, Zimbabwe. At nine years old she was adopted by a wealthy man -- a man whose murder she is now convicted of. Facing the death penalty, she tells the story of the chain of events that brought her there. But is everything exactly as she remembers it?

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About the Author

Petina Gappah is a Zimbabwean writer with law degrees from Cambridge, Graz University and the University of Zimbabwe. Her debut collection, An Elegy for Easterly, won the Guardian First Book Prize in 2009.

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The stunning debut novel from the award-winning author of An Elegy for Easterly , longlisted for the Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction. Moving between the vibrant townships of the poor and the suburbs and country retreats of the rich, The Book of Memory is a compelling, contemporary tale of love, obsession and the cruelty of fate. Memory is an albino woman, languisihing in prison in Harare, Zimbabwe. At nine years old she was adopted by a wealthy man -- a man whose murder she is now convicted of. Facing the death penalty, she tells the story of the chain of events that brought her there. But is everything exactly as she remembers it?

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Product Details

Publisher
Faber & Faber
Published
2nd June 2016
Edition
Main
Pages
288
ISBN
9780571249916

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