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Een voortreffelijk schrijfster, een rijzende ster.' - J.M. Coetzee Memory kwijnt weg in de Extra Beveiligde Gevangenis Chikurubi in Harare, Zimbabwe, waar ze berecht en veroordeeld is voor de moord op Lloyd Hendricks, haar adoptievader. De doodstraf staat haar te wachten, tenzij ze in hoger beroep vrijgesproken wordt. Haar advocate dringt erop aan dat ze alles opschrijft precies zoals zij het zich herinnert. Memory schrijft dus zowel letterli...

Hafiza Defterinin anlaticisi Memory, cinayetten hüküm giyip Zimbabvede Chikurubi Hapishanesine kapatilan ve idam edilmeyi bekleyen albino bir kadindir. Onu kücük yasta yanina alan Lloyd Hendricksi öldürmekten suclu bulunmustur. Avukati, temyiz talebinin parcasi olarak ondan olaylari hatirladigi sekliyle kagida dökmesini ister, ayrica yazacaklarini, hikayesiyle ilgilenen Amerikali bir gazeteciye de ulastiracaktir.Memory yazmaya baslar, anilar h...

In The Book of Memory, an albino woman named Memory is languishing in a maximum security prison in Harare, Zimbabwe, where she has been tried and convicted of murder. As part of her appeal, her lawyer insists that she write down what happened, that is, the events that led to the killing of her adoptive father, Lloyd Hendricks. But who was Lloyd Hendricks? Why does Memory feel no remorse for his death? And did everything happen exactly as she r...

In un Paese come lo Zimbabwe, segnato dalla superstizione, sembra che per Memory non ci sia possibilità di salvezza. Cresciuta in una famiglia povera nei sobborghi di Harare, Memory fin da bambina è emarginata dai compagni e tenuta a distanza dalla sua stessa madre, perché è "nera ma non nera, bianca ma non bianca", affetta da un'anomalia - la condizione di albina - che molti considerano una maledizione. A nove anni la sua vita cambia completa...

A woman in a township in Zimbabwe is surrounded by throngs of dusty children but longs for a baby of her own, an old man finds that his new job making coffins at No Matter Funeral Parlor brings unexpected riches, a politician's widow stands quietly by at her husband's funeral, watching his colleagues bury an empty casket. Petina Gappah's characters may have ordinary hopes and dreams, but they are living in a world where a loaf of bread costs h...