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Author:

Gappah, Petina, 1971- author.

Title:

The book of memory / Petina Gappah.

Edition:

First American edition.

Publisher:

FarrarStraus and Giroux,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

276 pages ; 22 cm

Subject:

Women prisoners--Fiction.
Albinos and albinism--Harare--Harare--Fiction.
Zimbabwean fiction.
Harare (Zimbabwe)--Fiction.

Summary:

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?

ISBN:

0865479070
9780865479074

OCLC:

(OCoLC)911135069

LCCN:

2015022198

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

S1PD771 -- Johnston Public Library (Johnston)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)

CJPC482 -- Williamsburg Public Library (Williamsburg)