Mohamed Mbougar Sarr

Most Secret Memory of Men

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ISBN: 9781787303737
Author : Mohamed Mbougar Sarr
Published: 2024
Publisher: Harvill Secker
Number of pages: 496
Language: English
Format: Paperback / softback
Format: 234×153

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THE GLOBAL LITERARY QUEST BESTSELLER'A masterpiece' The Times'The style as well as the sweep is Bolaño-esque' ObserverParis, 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.WINNER OF FRANCE'S MOST PRESTIGIOUS AWARD, THE PRIX GONCOURTTranslated by Lara Vernaud.

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