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World Book Club: Petina Gappah - The Book of Memory

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Petina Gappah - Zimbabwean Novelist

02/02/2020 GMT

Petina Gappah - The Book of Memory

BBC World Service - World Book Club, Petina Gappah - The Book of Memory

A Zimbabwean woman charged with murdering her adoptive father awaits her execution

A Zimbabwean woman charged with murdering her adoptive father awaits her execution on death row.

Harriett Gilbert is joined by Zimbabwean novelist Petina Gappah for this month’s edition of World Book Club, continuing 2020’s celebration of women’s writing.  

Petina will be answering questions from readers around the world about her novel The Book Of Memory.  It’s narrated by Memory, an albino woman convicted of murdering her wealthy white guardian, who took her away from life in the townships when she was a child. In this testimony, written from her prison cell, Memory looks back over her life and confronts the events that led to this conviction.

(Photo: Petina Gappah. Credit: Marina Cavazza)

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