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Petina Gappah powerfully probes the tricksy nature of memory through the story of Memory, or Mnemosyne, an albino woman consigned to Chikurubi prison in Harare, Zimbabwe, convicted of murdering a wealthy white man, Lloyd, her adopted father...Gappah brilliantly exposes the gulf between rich and poor, for when Memory was nine years old her parents sold her to Lloyd and she moved from an impoverished township, Mufakose, to a grand house.
The novel is startlingly vivid: Memory recalls the taste of a stolen mango, the suffocating smell of camphor, strelitzia flowers blazing with colour. Most poignant of all is what she cannot remember, such as the pain of realising that she can no longer picture her dead sister's face. It's through tiny details that Gappah grapples with the grand themes of fate and free will, love and loss, the collision of tradition and modernity, the impact of politics on the personal. Yet withholding details also creates a thriller-like suspense...this is a moving novel about memory that unfolds into one about forgiveness, and a passionate paean to the powers of language.
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Descrizione libro Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. 1st Edition. Book condition: new. Dust jacket condition: new. 1st printing, 1st edition. Signed by author. Signed by Author(s). Codice articolo 29
Descrizione libro Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. London. Faber & Faber. 2015. Hard Cover. Green cloth boards with silver spine titles. Illustrated dust wrapper protected in mylar. Both book and jacket are new. Flat signed by the author without dedication to the title page. First Printing. (1 in number line on copyright page) Please have a look at our wide selection of new, signed first editions; a must for the hypermodern collector. Moving between the townships of the poor and the suburbs of the rich, and between the past and the present, Memory weaves a compelling tale of love, obsession, the relentlessness of fate and the treachery of memory. Memory, the narrator of The Book of Memory, is an albino woman languishing in Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison in Harare, Zimbabwe, where she has been convicted of murder. As her story unfolds, Memory reveals that she has been tried and convicted for the murder of Lloyd Hendricks, her adopted father. Debut novel winner of the Guardian First Book Award for her stories, An Elegy for Easterly. Signed by Author(s). Codice articolo DEC12KH004
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Descrizione libro Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. 1st Edition. LONDON: Faber (2015). First U.K. edition. First printing. Hardbound. New/New. A pristine unread copy (without marks or bruises or smells or any other defect). Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket cover (not clipped, of course). Shipped in well-padded box. Purchased new and opened only for author to sign, no inscriptions, just the author's name. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. You cannot find a better copy. Signed by Author(s). Codice articolo 10-2015-91