Book DescriptionInternationally bestselling mystery author Henning Mankell explores the new African tradition of Memory Books, written by parents dying of AIDS for their children Henning Mankell, internationally famous creator of the bestselling Kurt Wallander mysteries, here offers a nonfiction fable about a heartrending tradition овкеп spawned by a major health crisis: the invaluable Memory Book Project, which gives those dying of AIDS an opportunity to record their lives in words and picturesfor the children they leave behind In Uganda, Mankell finds village after village populated only by children and the elderlythose left behind after AIDS swept away an entire generation These slim, intensely personal volumes can contain words, pictures, a pressed butterfly, or even grains of sand as ways to represent the lives lost to this devastating plague Excerpts from Ugandan memory books appear throughout I Die, But My Memory Lives On and, together with Mankell's narrative, they tell stories of individual lives while sounding a powerful warning about the threat of AIDS Featuring a foreword by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the book includes an appendix listing AIDS organizations and resources A portion of the book's proceedswith be donated to AIDS charities in Africa.  Изделия из2005 г 128 стр ISBN 1595580131.