LONGIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK PRIZE
First winner in sub-Saharan Africa of the greatest French literary prize, the Goncourt.
In 2018, Diégane Latyr Faye, a young Senegalese writer in Paris, discovered a legendary book from the 1930s, The Labyrinth of Inhumanity. Nobody knows what happened to its author, once nicknamed the “black Rimbaud”, after his book caused a scandal. Passionate about this mystery, Diégane decides to go in search of TC Elimane, taking a path that will force him to confront the great tragedies of history, from colonialism to the Shoah.
At the same time as his investigation, Diégane joined a group of young African writers in Paris. Together, they discuss, drink, make love, philosophize about the role of exile in artistic creation. Diégane becomes particularly close to two women: the attractive Siga, who harbors so many secrets, and the photojournalist Aïda, who is impossible to pin down.
The Most Secret Memory of Men is an astonishing novel about the choice between living and writing, and the desire to transcend the divide between Africa and the West. It is above all an ode to literature and its timelessness.
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