Research Catalog
The book of memory
- Title
- The book of memory / Petina Gappah.
- Author
- Gappah, Petina, 1971-
- Publication
- London : Faber & Faber, 2015.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | Sc E 15-1976 | Schomburg Center - Research & Reference |
Details
- Description
- 274 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- The story you have asked me to tell begins not with the ignominious ugliness of Lloyd's death but on a long-ago day in April when the sun seared my blistered face and I was nine years old and my father and mother sold me to a strange man. I say my father and my mother, but really it was just my mother. 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 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.
- Subject
- Call Number
- Sc E 15-1976
- ISBN
- 9780571249626 (paperback)
- 0571249620 (paperback)
- 057129684X
- 9780571296842
- OCLC
- 922305022
- Author
- Gappah, Petina, 1971- author.
- Title
- The book of memory / Petina Gappah.
- Publisher
- London : Faber & Faber, 2015.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Local Note
- Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 15-1976