An edition of The Book of Memory (2001)

The book of memory

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An edition of The Book of Memory (2001)

The book of memory

First American edition.
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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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English
Pages
276

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Edition Availability
Cover of: The book of memory
The book of memory
2016, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
in English - First American edition.
Cover of: Book of Memory
Book of Memory: A Novel
2016, Faber & Faber, Limited
in English
Cover of: La confessione di Memory
La confessione di Memory
2016-10-01, Guanda
Cover of: The Book of Memory
The Book of Memory
Mar 27, 2001, Faber & Faber

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Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.92
Library of Congress
PR9390.9.G37 B66 2016, PR9390.9.G37B66 2016

The Physical Object

Pagination
276 pages
Number of pages
276

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL27199980M
Internet Archive
bookofmemory0000gapp_l5o1
ISBN 10
0865479070
ISBN 13
9780865479074
LCCN
2015022198
OCLC/WorldCat
911135069

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February 4, 2021 Edited by hilloa_loa Corrected author from Howard Hughes to Petina Gappah
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