Paris 2018. Diégane Latyr Faye a young Senegalese writer discovers a legendary book titled
The Maze of Inhumanity. It has an immediate hold over him. No one knows what happened to the
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 following the author's labyrinthine trail from Senegal to Argentina
and France and confronting the great tragedies of history. Will he get to the truth at the
centre of the maze? A gripping literary quest novel and a masterpiece of perpetual reinvention
The Most Secret Memory of Men confronts the impact of colonialism and neo-colonialism the
holocaust in Europe dictatorships in South America and the Caribbean genocide in Africa and
collaboration and resistance everywhere. Above all it is a love song to literature and its
timeless power.
