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The Book of Memory was a challenging read, perhaps most because the fragmentary nature of memories mimicked the nonlinear storyline, The book is a collection of writings by Memory who is writing about her life, to appeal for her life, Memory, or Mnemosyne, is an albino woman on death row for the murder of her white adopted father Llyod, The writing is very rich, especially the scattering of the local dialect throughout the book, The Zimbabwean culture is portrayed with indigenous beliefs as one of the main themes in the book, especially the concept of ngozi avenging spirit in African spirituality and beliefs of the Shona people of Zimbabwe.
It was very interesting to read about the position of an albino in a community obsessed with colour, especially when there's the perceived hegemony of white skin involved.
Gappah's depiction of this is very thoughtful, something to be explored and further probed, Memory recalls the memories of her childhood and early years, all rooted in the fact that she was so different from other people, It can be said that her life represents the transition from poverty to wealth until the age of nine Memory lived with her poverty stricken parents, following which she was sold by her parents to Llyod, a wealthy white man.
The way the plot comes together was done well, with elements of minor suspense leading to the conclusion, The only thing I didn't like was the usual narrative of the mentally ill mother and the little focus on Memory's love interests especially since they're vital to the plot.
Since the story is told from the perspective of Memory, the development of secondary characters and their movement within the plot is restricted to their scope in Memory's story and perspective.


Overall I think the book was absolutely amazing, I highly recommend it, especially if you want to read diverse literary fiction, A DNF, unfortunately. The Book of Memory and I were at odds with each other for the first little while, The language Petina Guppah uses is rich and beautiful, peppered with local dialect and at times challenging to follow, but ultimately worth the effort,

The Book of Memory is exactly that not only of the person narrating the story, Memory herself, but also memory itself and the way it flows backwards to points in time without any particularly cohesive order.
The descriptive prose is haunting and gorgeous, I got a real feel for the streets upon which Memory lived, the shock of the culture change as she moved onto other things and a sharp knowledge of all the characters she met along the way or at least of her interpretation of them.


It is a literary novel, the narrative tells a life story Memory has to be seen as an unreliable narrator because it is simply her own world view of those things that have happened to her.
It is entirely fascinating and at times very moving, with a sharp influx of ironic humour and a brilliantly placed sense of time that speaks to wider issues within its setting.


I enjoyed it, admired it whilst not being completely in love with it and would definitely recommend it for fans of literary fiction with entirely wonderful yet not wasted language.
The Book of Memory is short and sharp a little gem to be savoured on a quiet afternoon, Give it a go. An apt title. The book is a narration by the protagonist, an albino named Memory, based on her memory, recollection, and perception of the series of events that led to her incarceration for life in Chikurubi maximum prison, for the murder of her white cohabitant Lloyd.


The story is related as direct written correspondence to Melinda Carter, a white American journalist who was to be instrumental in the success of the appeal of Memory's sentence and conviction.
Melinda was known to " have made a career out of exposing miscarriages of justice "

A vivid, intriguing, colourful and partly funny tale, that let's us in on Memory's poverty stricken life in a black Zimbabwen township, " And you could say that we did not know just how poor we were because everyone else around us was the same ".
Her experiences in a white affluent suburb in Zimbabwe, and in America, The lawyer in Gappah manifests itself as she covers the technicalities

within the police and justice system,

The book covers and juxtaposes issues of mental illness, beliefs , race, homophobia, bullying , art, politics, love, education, survival, misogyny, parenting ,circle of violence , career and many more.
Typical of Zimbabwen stories the character names are interesting, Marvelous, Moreblessings, Sinfree, Evernice , and Gift,

I thoroughly enjoyed the book and I highly recommend it, Thought provoking , informative , well researched, opinionated and daring, Perhaps not a fair rating, since I didn't finish it, but I can't imagine suffering through to the end,

This story held such promise and I really wanted to like it, but had to abandon it afterpages, The dull, lifeless prose had me nodding off at the end of every page, It was a struggle to get as far as I did, Life is much too short to waste it on this,

"Todo lo que se hace muchas veces aunque sea esperar la propia muerte, acaba por convertirse en rutina"
"Atenazada por el miedo y por la añoranza de mi hogar, me salvaron los libros"
"Pensé en lo que significaba vivir en un país en el que no podías hablar de una parte tan esencial de tu ser.
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Memory necesita escribir su historia para intentar conseguir la libertad, reconciliarse con su pasado y entender cómo llegó a la prisión de máxima seguridad para mujeres en Chikurubi.
Fuera de los barrotes un país lleno de contradicciones que alcanzó la paz y cambió de nombre a base de matanzas y conflictos sangrientos durante casi dos décadas Memory, a young albino woman in a prison in Zimbabwe, must write down the story of her life if she wants to escape the death penalty.
She has been imprisoned for the murder of the man her parents sold her to, and her lawyer thinks Memory's recollection is the only way to win an appeal.
But as Memory tells her story, she begins to wonder if it really happened as she remembers it, Why does she feel nothing for the murdered man The Book of Memory is a gripping story of love, fate, and the tricky business of recollection.



Tune in to our weekly podcast dedicated to all things new books, All The Books: sitelink com/category/allthe The first half dragged, meandered and was dry, But the second half of this book was excellent as Memory's story unfolds and the truth about her mother is revealed,
At the age of, Memory is "sold" to a single white man Lloyd, She is well educated in a caring house, They meet Zenko, an African artist, and Lloyd's secret a fairly obvious one is revealed, Memory goes to Europe and University and finally returns to Zimbabwe where she once again goes to live in Lloyd's house, Memory tells her story while sitting in her jail cell convicted of Lloyd's murder,
The setting is at the end of Rhodesia into the early days of Zimbabwe and there is a good mix of the white's world and the native world through this period to make the book interesting for historical, cultural and storytelling reasons.
Hieno leikki stereotypioilla, erilaisuuden pelolla, uskomuksilla, rakkauden ja perheen määreillä, Mnemosyne, known as Memory, writes to an unseen, unmet Western journalist from her cell in Zimbabwe's notorious Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison, She has been sentenced to death for the murder of her childhood guardian, Lloyda white man to whom her parents handed her off in a diner when Memory was a young girl.
Memory is an albino African, a condition that, even after she is treated for its physical pain, leaves deep scars in her psyche, Memory's attempts to define her identity and reason through a family and community that abandoned her lead her beyond Africa and into a redemptive life in Europe.
But when she returns to Zimbabwe, disaster in the guise of a horrifying coincidence befalls her and she lands, unwittingly, on death row,

The premise is breathtaking, the execution less so, The epistolary narrative means relying on the memory a compelling and wellrendered theme of an unreliable narrator, Much of the first half is devoted to describing daily life in this women's prison, which is worthy of its own novel, but it does crowd out Memory's memories of her childhood and it become difficult to know quite where to focus one's attention.
The second half of the novel, where Memory brings the reader into her life after she is sold to Lloyd, is rushed and so many of the events inexplicable and tangential.


Gappah's writing is gorgeousstrong and clear with fullcolor descriptions and a vivid sensuality that brings every setting, every character to life, The narrative is wellpaced and the foreshadowing of deeper, darker secretsthe essential mystery of Memory's relationship with Lloyd and her arrest and convictionpropel the reader forward.
The plot is distracted and unsatisfying, but this is still a worthy read for its insights into current Zimbabwe and its wonderfully rendered female characters.
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