The Most Secret Memory of Men - Sarr, Mohamed Mbougar
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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…mehr

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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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Autorenporträt
MOHAMED MBOUGAR SARR was born in Dakar in 1990. He studied literature and philosophy in Paris and is the author of four prize-winning novels. The Most Secret Memory of Men was awarded France's Prix Goncourt in 2021 and is an international phenomenon, selling more than half a million copies in France and translated into more than thirty languages.
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Captivating, precise, sensual prose. A book that will stir your emotions and make you think. A love letter to literature, this novel is already a classic and it will haunt you. Leïla Slimani, bestselling author of LULLABY