The Book of Memory
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The Book of Memory is a critically acclaimed novel by Zimbabwean writer Petina Gappah that follows an albino woman on death row in Harare as she recounts her life and the events that led to her imprisonment.
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| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Book of Memory canonical | 1 |
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
literary work
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novel ⓘ |
| author | Petina Gappah NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| authorNationality | Zimbabwean ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
family
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identity ⓘ justice ⓘ memory ⓘ race ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Zimbabwe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| criticalReception | critically acclaimed ⓘ |
| genre |
African literature
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literary fiction ⓘ psychological fiction ⓘ |
| hasCharacterTraitOfProtagonist | condemned to death ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
legal injustice
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social marginalization ⓘ storytelling as testimony ⓘ trauma ⓘ unreliable memory ⓘ |
| literaryForm |
death row narrative
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prison narrative ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Memory NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person narrative ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | follows an albino woman on death row in Harare as she recounts her life and the events that led to her imprisonment ⓘ |
| primaryNarrativeDevice | life story recounted from death row GENERATED ⓘ |
| protagonistCharacteristic | albino woman ⓘ |
| settingCountry | Zimbabwe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Harare NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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