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Thestory you have asked me to tell begins not with the ignominiousugliness of Lloyd's death but on a long-ago day in April when the sunseared my blistered face and I was nine years old and my father andmother sold me to a strange man. I say my father and my mother, butreally it was just my mother. Memory, the narrator of The Book of Memory,is an albino woman languishing in Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison in Harare,Zimbabwe, where she has been convicted of murder. As part of her appealher 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 storyunfolds, Memory reveals that she has been tried and convicted for themurder of Lloyd Hendricks, her adopted father. But who was LloydHendricks? Why does Memory feel no remorse for his death? And dideverything happen exactly as she remembers? Moving between thetownships of the poor and the suburbs of the rich, and between the pastand the present, Memory weaves a compelling tale of love, obsession, therelentlessness of fate and the treachery of memory.