The Longest Memory

First edition. 8vo. Pp. [vi], 138. Black cloth boards, lettered in gilt to spine; navy endpapers. Jacket design by Angus Hyland.

D'Aguiar's fictional debut. Winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award and the David Higham Prize for Fiction in 1994. Narated by multiple characters in various literary forms, the story of a rebellious, clever young slave, who in his vain attempt to flee a Virginia plantation, is inadvertently betrayed by his own father. Adapted for television by Channel 4 in the UK. "A haunting novel whose brevity and directness belie the depths of tragedy it plumbs." –Aida Edemariam, The Guardian