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The book of memory /
作者 : Gappah, Petina,,1971-,author.
出版社 : Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
出版年 : 2016
ISBN：9781250117922
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書名 ： The book of memory /
紀錄類型 ： 書目-語言資料,印刷品: 單行本
正題名[資料類型標示]/作者 ： The book of memory /Petina Gappah.
作者 ： Gappah, Petina,
版本項 ： First American edition.
出版者 ： New York :Farrar, Straus and Giroux,2016.
面頁冊數 ： 276 p. ;21 cm.
內容註 ： Memory, the narrator of [this novel], is an albino woman languishing in Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison in Harare, Zimbabwe, after being sentenced for murder. As part of her appeal, her lawyer insists that she write down what happened as she remembers it. The death penalty is a mandatory sentence for murder, and Memory is, both literally and metaphorically, writing for her life. As her story unfolds, Memory reveals that she has been tried and convicted for the murder of Lloyd Hendricks, her adopted father. But who was Lloyd Hendricks? Why does Memory feel no remorse for his death? And did everything happen exactly as she remembers? -- Dust jacket flap.
標題 ： Women prisoners
標題 ： Harare (Zimbabwe)
ISBN ： 9781250117922 (pbk.) :
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