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Title: The Most Secret Memory of Men Condition: New ISBN-10: 1787303713 EAN: 9781787303713 ISBN: 9781787303713 Publisher: Harvill Secker Format: Hardback Release Date: 22/02/2024 Description: Paris, 2018. Diégane Latyr Faye, a young Senegalese writer, discovers a legendary book titled The Maze of Inhumanity. It has an immediate hold over him. No one knows what happened to the author, T.C. Elimane, who was accused of plagiarism, his reputation destroyed by the critics.
Obsessed with discovering the truth about Elimane's disappearance, Faye weaves past and present, countries and continents, following the author's labyrinthine trail from Senegal to Argentina and France and confronting the great tragedies of history.
Will he get to the truth at the centre of the maze?
A gripping literary quest novel and a masterpiece of perpetual reinvention, The Most Secret Memory of Men confronts the impact of colonialism and neo-colonialism, the holocaust in Europe, dictatorships in South America and the Caribbean, genocide in Africa, and collaboration and resistance everywhere. Above all, it is a love song to literature and its timeless power. Language: French Country/Region of Manufacture: GB Item Height: 240mm Item Length: 162mm Item Width: 43mm Item Weight: 742g Author: Mohamed Mbougar Sarr Genre: Fiction Release Year: 2024 Missing Information?
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