num_pages: 113
description: A deeply moving account of Henning Mankells personal responses to AIDS and its victims both parents and children left behind far too soon. Archbishop Desmond Tutu The internationally famous creator of the bestselling Kurt Wallander mysteries tells the true story of a heartrending tradition spawned by a major health the invaluable Memory Book Project which gives those dying of AIDS an opportunity to record their lives in words and pictures for the children they leave behind. In Uganda Mankell finds village after village populated only by children and the elderlythose left behind after AIDS swept away an entire generation. These slim intensely personal volumes can contain words pictures a pressed butterfly or even grains of sand as ways to represent the lives lost to this devastating plague. Excerpts from Ugandan memory books appear throughout I Die but My Memory Lives On and together with Mankells narrative they tell the stories of individual lives while sounding a powerful warning about the threat of AIDS. Featuring a foreword by Archbishop Desmond Tutu the book includes an appendix listing AIDS organizations and resources. A portion of the books proceeds will be donated to AIDS charities in Africa.
language: English
title: I Die, but My Memory Lives on: The World AIDS Crisis and the Memory Book Project
publisher: The New Press