- Prix Goncourt 2021 · Winner
The Most Secret Memory of Men
La Plus Secrète Mémoire des hommes
Mohamed Mbougar Sarr (born 1990)
Translated by Lara Vergnaud
English editions
In EnglishThe Most Secret Memory of Men
Other Press · United States · 26 September 2023 · Paperback · 496 pages
The Most Secret Memory of Men
Harvill Secker · United Kingdom · 2024 · Hardcover
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In Paris in 2018, the young Senegalese writer Diégane Latyr Faye finds The Labyrinth of the Inhuman, a legendary 1938 novel by T. C. Elimane, once hailed as a 'Black Rimbaud', who vanished after a scandal. Obsessed, Diégane tracks him from Senegal to France and Argentina, through colonialism and the Holocaust, while debating exile and art with young African writers and growing close to the secretive Siga and the photojournalist Aïda.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 461 pages in the original
- Genres
- Historical (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Senegal, France, Argentina
- First published
- 2021 by Philippe Rey / Jimsaan
- Author's age
- 31 when first published
- ISBN
9782848768861 (original)
9781635423273 (Other Press, United States)
9781787303713 (Harvill Secker, United Kingdom)
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