The Most Secret Human Memory

Combine Borges and Schmitt, Allende and Mo Yan, and you get Mohamed Mbougar Sarr. He is as unpredictable and stylistically colorful as his main character, T. Sh. Eliman.

The Most Secret Human Memory is in the form of an investigative novel, but in fact, it is a masterful postmodern work that ironically (and sometimes cynically) plays with itself, and plays with literature.

The novel touches on many themes — from the injustice of colonialism and Europe's guilt before Africa to sexual and intellectual identity against the background of war and civilizational crisis. It is at the same time an exo- and esoteric work that aspires to an ideal - the dignity of Bartol's Alamut - but remains extremely simple and humane.