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The book of memory

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication Date:
2016
Language:
English

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Convicted of murdering her adopted father, Memory, an albino woman languishing in Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison in Harare, Zimbabwe, as part of her appeal, writes down what happened as she remembers it, in this dramatic story of love, obsession, fate and the treachery of memory. By the author of An Elegy for Easterly.

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