The book of memory
Gappah, Petina, 1971-2015
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. I say my father and my mother, but really it was just my mother. Memory, the narrator of 'The Book of Memory', is an albino woman languishing in Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison in Harare, Zimbabwe, where she has been convicted of 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.
Main title:
The book of memory / Petina Gappah.
Author:
Gappah, Petina, 1971-, author
Work:
Imprint:
London : Faber & Faber, 2015.London : Faber & Faber, 2015.
Collation:
274 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9780571296842 (hbk)
Dewey class:
823.92F
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
1774371