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The Book of Memory (2015)

por Petina Gappah

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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 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. But who was Lloyd Hendricks? Why does Memory feel no remorse for his death? And did everything happen exactly as she remembers?… (más)
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Loved this. It wasn't a convoluted read but you had to keep turning pages to see what was going on. Easy to read and easy to care for the main character. I liked that it ended on a hopeful note. ( )
  Luziadovalongo | Jul 14, 2022 |
In The Book of Memory, the narrative takes the form of the protagonist Memory's recounting her story to support her appeal from a death sentence in prison in Zimbabwe. A black albino, Memory has been convicted for the murder of the white man she believes bought her from her parents as a child.

It's a novel that explores a number of interesting themes amidst the backdrop of the relatively newly formed Zimbabwe and the political and social upheaval of the times: the societal difficulties of being albino as a person of colour in Africa, homosexuality in a country where it is outlawed, the education disparities between the wealthy and the poor.

I enjoyed the writing style in this book. It's a book that didn't necessarily feel particularly new in terms of its plot ideas (so much so that for a while I was convinced I'd read it before), but it swept me along and Gappah kept the intrigue right to the end.

4 stars - a very worthwhile random grab from the library this week. ( )
  AlisonY | Apr 23, 2022 |
Amazing story. Beautifully written. ( )
  newnaturalmama | Nov 15, 2020 |
Narrated by Memory, a young black Zimbabwean woman, in jail for the murder of her white adopttve father. She is writing down her life story for her lawyer's planned appeal - a Book of Memory indeed- and takes us through her life, darting back and forth from the grim daily prison routine to recollections of her childhood. A loving father, a strange mother, family tragedies, the Zimbabwean world of religion and superstition....and then the inexplicable moment that she was 'sold' to a professor, and the world of privilege she came to inhabit. The facts only emerge in the last chapters, revealing an unexpected twist.
Quite a page-turner. *3.5. ( )
  starbox | Oct 19, 2018 |
I don't disagree that this book starts slow. It's a strange book in many ways, with the heavy-handed metaphors, the almost-ridiculous storyline...but it also moves from being slow to being much, much more readable. I can't decide how I feel about it. ( )
  jeninmotion | Sep 24, 2018 |
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he Book of Memory" by Zimbabwean author Petina Gappah is a fiercely vivid novel that in some places — particularly, unfortunately, its opening pages — takes itself too seriously. Some paragraphs there are loaded with foreshadowing and sentimentality — but this is just an awkward warm-up for a book of song and color....In the rush, it seems Gappah could have spent more time letting the reader learn about Memory as an adult. She has a couple of significant relationships, but one is left severely underdeveloped, possibly because it has no direct connection to Lloyd, whose death remains at the book's center...Gappah smoothly weaves these real-life issues into her first novel without shortchanging her main character.
 
There are sections that could have been more fully developed, such as Memory falling in love for the first time, and occasional inconsistencies in voice are jarring, but these glitches aside, this is a moving novel about memory that unfolds into one about forgiveness, and a passionate paean to the powers of language.
 
An evocative and powerful rendering of a country mired in corruption and caught between tradition and modernity, the novel explores themes of loss, memory and forgiveness with a most unusual narrator who believes, above all, in the power of language to restore....Gappah brings colour to the bleak world with her vivid characterisation of various prisoners and scenes that see the inmates put on mock courtroom dramas. For all their viciousness, there is humour too...As it seeks to tie all the disparate strains together, the book’s impact lessens significantly in the final quarter....Gappah is a gifted, sensual writer who uses everything from county and western music to “the high whine of a million mosquitoes”, to the taste of a stolen mango to draw the reader into her world.
 

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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 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. But who was Lloyd Hendricks? Why does Memory feel no remorse for his death? And did everything happen exactly as she remembers?

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