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The book of memory /

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 penal...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gappah, Petina, 1971- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.
Edition:First American edition.
Subjects:
Women prisoners > Fiction.
Albinos and albinism > Zimbabwe > Harare > Fiction.
Zimbabwean fiction.
Harare (Zimbabwe) > Fiction.
Albinos and albinism.
Women prisoners.
Zimbabwe > Harare.
Novels.
Fiction.

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