I Die, but the Memory Lives on

Henning Mankell, internationally famous creator of the bestselling Kurt Wallander mysteries, here offers a nonfiction fable about a heartrending tradition 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 pictures for the children they leave behind.In Uganda, Mankell finds village after village populated only by children and the elderly?those left behind after AIDS swept away an entire generation. These slim, intensely personal volumes can contain words, pictures, a pressed butter