Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780571249916
Publisert
2016-06-02
Utgiver
Vendor
Faber & Faber
Vekt
215 gr
Høyde
233 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Dybde
17 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
288
Forfatter
Om bidragsyterne
Petina Gappah is a Zimbabwean writer with law degrees from Cambridge, Graz University and the University of Zimbabwe. Her debut collection, An Elegy for Easterly, won the Guardian First Book Prize in 2009.
Moving between the vibrant townships of the poor and the suburbs and country retreats of the rich, The Book of Memory is a compelling, contemporary tale of love, obsession and the cruelty of fate. Memory is an albino woman, languisihing in prison in Harare, Zimbabwe. At nine years old she was adopted by a wealthy man -- a man whose murder she is now convicted of. Facing the death penalty, she tells the story os the chain of events that brought her there. But is everything exactly as she remembers it?
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Moving between the vibrant townships of the poor and the suburbs and country retreats of the rich, The Book of Memory is a compelling, contemporary tale of love, obsession and the cruelty of fate. At nine years old she was adopted by a wealthy man -- a man whose murder she is now convicted of.
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A witty and tender account of a life in a country undergoing momentous change.
The stunning debut novel from the award-winning author of <i>An Elegy for Easterly</i>, longlisted for the Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction.
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780571249916
Publisert
2016-06-02
Utgiver
Vendor
Faber & Faber
Vekt
215 gr
Høyde
233 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Dybde
17 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
288
Forfatter