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THE GLOBAL LITERARY QUEST BESTSELLER

''A masterpiece'' The Times
''The style as well as the sweep is Bolaño-esque'' Observer

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 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 Ame

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      Publisher: Random House
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 1/22/2024
      ISBN13: 9781787303737, 978-1787303737
      ISBN10: 178730373X

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      THE GLOBAL LITERARY QUEST BESTSELLER

      ''A masterpiece'' The Times
      ''The style as well as the sweep is Bolaño-esque'' Observer

      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 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 Ame

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