The Most Secret Memory of Men

**THE GLOBAL BESTSELLER
WINNER OF FRANCE'S MOST PRESTIGIOUS AWARD, THE PRIX GONCOURT
LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS & THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD**

'A masterpiece' The Times
'A love letter to literature' Leïla Slimani
'A rollicking literary mystery ... Propulsive' New Yorker

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?

'The style as well as the sweep is Bolaño-esque' Observer
'As enthralling as it is thought-provoking' Eric Nguyen
'Terrific' Daily Mail

Translated by Lara Vernaud

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.

LARA VERGNAUD is a translator of prose,
creative non-fiction and scholarly works from
the French. She is the recipient of the French-
American Foundation Translation Prize and the
French Voices Grand Prize, and has been
nominated for the National Translation Award.
She lives in southern France.