The Most Secret Memory of Men
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Summary
**THE GLOBAL BESTSELLER
WINNER OF FRANCE'S MOST PRESTIGIOUS AWARD, THE PRIX GONCOURT
LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS**
'A masterpiece' The Times
‘A love letter to literature’ Leïla Slimani
‘A rollicking literary mystery … Propulsive’ New Yorker
Paris, 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 its 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, to follow the author's labyrinthine trail from Senegal to Argentina and France and to confront the great tragedies of history.
Will he get to the truth at the centre of the maze?
'The style as well as the sweep is Bolaño-esque' Observer
‘As enthralling as it is thought-provoking’ Eric Nguyen
‘Terrific’ Daily Mail
Translated by Lara Vernaud
WINNER OF FRANCE'S MOST PRESTIGIOUS AWARD, THE PRIX GONCOURT
LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS**
'A masterpiece' The Times
‘A love letter to literature’ Leïla Slimani
‘A rollicking literary mystery … Propulsive’ New Yorker
Paris, 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 its 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, to follow the author's labyrinthine trail from Senegal to Argentina and France and to confront the great tragedies of history.
Will he get to the truth at the centre of the maze?
'The style as well as the sweep is Bolaño-esque' Observer
‘As enthralling as it is thought-provoking’ Eric Nguyen
‘Terrific’ Daily Mail
Translated by Lara Vernaud
Reviews
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