Review: Mohamed Mbougar Sarr's novel 'The Secret Memory of Men'
Mohamed Mbougar Sarr's 'The Secret Memory of Men' won French notoriety and acclaim for plumbing an African novelist's erasure — and now it's available in English.
Stay updated with breaking news from Alexia Trigo. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
Mohamed Mbougar Sarr's 'The Secret Memory of Men' won French notoriety and acclaim for plumbing an African novelist's erasure — and now it's available in English.
The online publication’s annual list celebrates not only the sheer abundance of African literature but its daring, new directions
What can happen in a country when extremists take over? This novel foresees its future In Mohamed Mbougar Sarr’s French novel ‘Brotherhood’, grief and resistance propel the narrative, even if didacticism comes in the way sometimes. An atmosphere of violence, fear, and hostility sweeps through the fictional country of Sumal as an extremist Jihadist group named Brotherhood imposes its set of laws and regulations on the previously liberal country. Public executions, moral policing, repression of freedom, and other ruthless implementations of the group’s own sense of law-and-order lap at ...