The Book of Memory
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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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PUBLISHED
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.
Year Published: 2016
Description: 276 pages ; 22 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780865479074
SUBJECTS
Women prisoners -- Fiction.
Albinos and albinism -- Harare -- Fiction.
Zimbabwean fiction.
Harare (Zimbabwe) -- Fiction.