The Book of Memory - Brossura

Gappah, Petina

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0571249620 ISBN 13: 9780571249626

Casa editrice: Faber And Faber Ltd., 2015

Riassunto

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. 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? Moving between the townships of the poor and the suburbs of the rich, and between the past and the present, Memory weaves a compelling tale of love, obsession, the relentlessness of fate and the treachery of memory.

Su questo libro

Descrizione del libro:

The stunning debut novel from the award-winning author of An Elegy for Easterly.

L'autore:

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.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Faber And Faber Ltd.
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0571249620
• ISBN 13: 9780571249626
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 300