The Most Secret Memory of Men : A Novel

✍ Scribed by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr; Lara Vergnaud

• Book ID: 112051060
• Publisher: Other Press
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 402 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781635423280

✦ Synopsis

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS
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A gripping literary mystery in the vein of Bola ño's Savage Detectives , this coming-of-age novel unravels the fascinating life of a maligned Black author, based on Yambo Ouologuem.**
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The first Sub-Saharan African winner of France 's top literary prize, the Goncourt.**
In 2018, Diegane Latyr Faye, a young Senegalese writer in Paris, discovers a legendary book from the 1930s, The Labyrinth of Inhumanity. No one knows what became of its author, once hailed as the "Black Rimbaud," after the book caused a scandal. Enthralled by this mystery, Diegane decides to search for T.C. Elimane, going down a path that will force him to confront the great tragedies of history, from colonialism to the Holocaust.
Alongside his investigation, Diegane becomes part of a group of young African writers in Paris. Together they talk, drink, make love, philosophize...