by Petina Gappah · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9788860889522
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«La confessione di Memory» is the novel by Petina Gappah, published by Guanda in paperback (288 pages, in Italian).
Memory, an albino woman from Harare, waits on death row after being convicted of murdering Lloyd Hendricks, the man who took her in as a child. On her lawyer's advice, she writes her memories for the appeal: a childhood marked by superstition, her new life with her adoptive father, and doubts about what happened.
Novel originally published in English as The Book of Memory (2015). It won the McKitterick Prize 2016, was a finalist for the PEN Open Book Award, and was longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction.
For readers of contemporary African fiction and literary fiction, especially those interested in novels with an introspective narrative voice.
Petina Gappah is a Zimbabwean lawyer and writer. She writes in English, though she also draws on Shona, her first language. In 2016, she was named African Literary Person of the Year by Brittle Paper. In 2017 she had a DAAD Artist-in-Residence fellowship in Berlin.
