Out of Darkness, Shining Light, Gappah Petina

Автор: Gappah Petina
Название: The Book of Memory
ISBN: 1250117925 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781250117922
Издательство: Holtzbrink(MPS)/MPS
Цена: 2023.00 р.
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"The story that you have asked me to tell you does not begin with the pitiful ugliness of Lloyd s death. It begins on a long-ago day in August when the sun seared my blistered face and I was nine years old and my father and mother sold me to a strange man."

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?

Moving between the townships of the poor and the suburbs of the rich, and between past and present, the 2009 Guardian First Book Award winning writer Petina Gappah weaves a compelling tale of love, obsession, the relentlessness of fate, and the treachery of memory."

Автор: Gappah Petina
Название: Book of Memory
ISBN: 0571249914 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780571249916
Издательство: Faber
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Цена: 1319.00 р.
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Описание: 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.

Автор: Gappah, Petina
Название: Rotten row
ISBN: 0571324193 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780571324194
Издательство: Faber
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Описание: In these portraits of lives aching for meaning and redemption, Petina Gappah crosses the barriers of class, race, gender and sexual politics in contemporary Zimbabwe, to explore the causes and effects of crime and the nature of justice.