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The half-million copy global literary quest bestseller for fans of The Name of the Rose- 'a masterpiece' The Times; 'Bolano-esque' Observer Paris, 2018. Diegane 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?

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This marvellous novel is part gripping literary mystery and part disquisition on being a black author in a predominantly white culture… the reader is drawn into a skilfully drawn reconstruction of French literary history in which ideas of authenticity, power, race and fame are wittily deconstructed. Terrific * Daily Mail * A masterpiece * The Times * Funny, sharp takes on questions of identity add grit to an inventive tribute to literature's timeless potency * Mail on Sunday * A literary quest… The style as well as the sweep is Bolañoesque: surreal metaphors, multi-page dream descriptions * Observer * Sarr’s incisive critique never relents… a brilliant effort at welcoming readers into the work of an author whose career was interrupted * Guardian *

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MOHAMED MBOUGAR SARR was born in Dakar in 1990. He studied literature and philosophy in Paris and is the author of four prize-winning novels. The Most Secret Memory of Men was awarded France's Prix Goncourt in 2021 and is an international phenomenon, selling more than half a million copies in France and translated into more than thirty languages.

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