Product details
ISBN
9780571249916
Published
2016-06-02
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Weight
215 gr
Height
233 mm
Width
156 mm
Thickness
17 mm
Age
G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
288
Author
Biographical note
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.
Moving between the vibrant townships of the poor and the suburbs and country retreats of the rich, The Book of Memory is a compelling, contemporary tale of love, obsession and the cruelty of fate. Memory is an albino woman, languisihing in prison in Harare, Zimbabwe. At nine years old she was adopted by a wealthy man -- a man whose murder she is now convicted of. Facing the death penalty, she tells the story os the chain of events that brought her there. But is everything exactly as she remembers it?
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Moving between the vibrant townships of the poor and the suburbs and country retreats of the rich, The Book of Memory is a compelling, contemporary tale of love, obsession and the cruelty of fate. At nine years old she was adopted by a wealthy man -- a man whose murder she is now convicted of.
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A witty and tender account of a life in a country undergoing momentous change.
The stunning debut novel from the award-winning author of <i>An Elegy for Easterly</i>, longlisted for the Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction.
Product details
ISBN
9780571249916
Published
2016-06-02
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Weight
215 gr
Height
233 mm
Width
156 mm
Thickness
17 mm
Age
G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
288
Author