The most secret memory of men
Sarr, Mohamed Mbougar, 1990-2024
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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.
Main title:
The most secret memory of men / Mohamed Mbougar Sarr ; translated from the French by Lara Vergnaud.
Author:
Sarr, Mohamed Mbougar, 1990-, authorVergnaud, Lara, translator
Imprint:
London : Harvill Secker, 2024.©2023
Collation:
475 pages ; 24 cm.
Notes:
First published in French as La plus secrète mémoire des hommes by Éditions Philippe Rey, Paris, in co-edition with Éditions Jimsaan, Daka, in 2021.Translated from the French.
ISBN:
9781787303737 (paperback)9781787303713 (hardback)
Dewey class:
843.92F
Language:
EnglishFrench
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BRN:
2126979