La plus secrète mémoire des hommes

Diégane, the narrator, is a Senegalese writer living in Paris. He is searching for T. C.

Elimane, author of Le Labyrinthe de l’inhumain, an elusive book he came across by chance and which changed his life and his idea of literature. Published in 1938, the book was met with reviews that were racist to varying degrees; its author was accused of plagiarism and promptly vanished. In the course of his quest Diégane meets Siga D.

, who seems to hold many of the secrets of Elimane’s family, his birth and his departure for France.