Description
From one of Africa’s most gifted and critically celebrated literary voices comes a novel of extraordinary power, beauty, and moral complexity. The Book of Memory by Petina Gappah, published by the prestigious Faber & Faber, is a deeply compelling, beautifully written, and emotionally rich African literary novel that announces Gappah as one of the most important storytellers to emerge from the continent in a generation. Now available as an affordable PDF eBook on Cliffmatt Books Kenya.
Memory is an albino woman sitting on death row in a Zimbabwean prison for the murder of Lloyd Hendricks — a white man who was, by most accounts, her guardian, benefactor, and the person who paid for her education. As she writes her story to a lawyer who believes she may be innocent, Memory reconstructs her extraordinary life — from her childhood in a Harare township, to the day her parents sold her to Lloyd, through years of privilege and pain — in an attempt to understand and communicate what truly happened and why. Told in Gappah’s extraordinary prose — precise, lyrical, and deeply compassionate — this is a novel about race, class, memory, albinism, family, and justice in post-colonial Zimbabwe that resonates with shattering clarity for any African reader.
What this book covers:
- A gripping and beautifully told story of an African woman on death row — and the life that brought her there
- Race, class, albinism, and justice in post-colonial Zimbabwe explored with rare literary intelligence
- A powerful meditation on memory, identity, and what it means to belong nowhere and everywhere
- Petina Gappah’s extraordinary literary voice — one of the finest in contemporary African fiction
- A novel that speaks directly and powerfully to the African experience of inequality, difference, and survival
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Perfect for: literary fiction lovers, African studies students, post-colonial literature readers, book club members, creative writing students, and every Kenyan reader who wants to experience the very best of contemporary African storytelling.
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