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The Most Secret Memory of Men
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  • Published: 22 February 2024
  • ISBN: 9781529926354
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 496
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The Most Secret Memory of Men

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26 Aug 2025
EBook
22 Feb 2024
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22 Feb 2024
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The half-million copy global literary quest bestseller for fans of The Name of the Rose: 'a masterpiece' The Times; 'Bolaño-esque' Observer

Paris, 2018. Diégane Latyr Faye, a young Senegalese writer, discovers a legendary book titled The Labyrinth of Inhumanity. It has an immediate hold over him. No one knows what happened to its 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, to follow the author's labyrinthine trail from Senegal to Argentina and France and to confront the great tragedies of history.

Will he get to the truth at the centre of the maze?
  • Published: 22 February 2024
  • ISBN: 9781529926354
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 496
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About the author

Mohamed Mbougar Sarr

Mohamed Mbougar Sarr was born in Dakar in 1990. He studied literature and philosophy at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. Brotherhood, his first novel, won the Grand Prix du Roman Métis, the Prix Ahmadou Kourouma, and the French Voices Grand Prize. The president of Senegal named him a Chevalier of the National Order of Merit. He won the 2021 Goncourt Prize for his novel The Most Secret Memory of Men (Other Press, 2023), becoming the first sub-Saharan African to do so.
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