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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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Paperback
26 Aug 2025
EBook
22 Feb 2024
Audiobook
22 Feb 2024
Hardback
22 Mar 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
Categories:

About the author

Mohamed Mbougar Sarr

Mohamed Mbougar Sarr was born in Dakar, Senegal, in 1990. He studied literature and philosophy at L'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. In 2021, he won the Prix Goncourt for The Most Secret Memory of Men, becoming the first author from sub-Saharan Africa to win the award and one of the youngest at only thirty-one years old.

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Praise for The Most Secret Memory of Men

A powerful book, crossed by an epic breath that celebrates the power of literature.

Alain Mabanckou, author of BLACK MOSES

Captivating, precise, sensual prose. A book that will stir your emotions and make you think. A love letter to literature, this novel is already a classic and it will haunt you.

Leïla Slimani, bestselling author of LULLABY

More than an engrossing investigation into the mysterious author of a cursed book, Sarr's magnificent novel also offers a profound reflection on the resonance of literature in our lives.

David Diop, International Booker Prize–winning author of AT NIGHT ALL BLOOD IS BLACK

Thanks to translator Lara Vergnaud, English-language readers can seamlessly experience Mohamed Mbougar Sarr's pyrotechnic prose. A labyrinth of a novel, The Most Secret Memory of Men is as enthralling as it is thought-provoking. Sarr is a writer that comes along once in a lifetime.

Eric Nguyen, author of THINGS WE LOST TO THE WATER