num_pages: 276
description: 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. 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?In The Book of Memory Petina Gappah has created a uniquely slippery narrator: forthright acerbically funny and with a complicated relationship to the truth. Moving between the townships of the poor and the suburbs of the rich and between the past and the present Gappah weaves a compelling tale of love obsession the relentlessness of fate and the treachery of memory.
language: English
title: The Book of Memory
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux