The Most Secret Memory of Men (French: La plus secrète mémoire des hommes, lit.

[1] An English translation by Lara Vergnaud was published by Other Press and Simon & Schuster Canada on 26 September 2023.

The novel tells the story of a young Senegalese writer named Diégane Latyr Faye, living in Paris who discovers a 1938 novel by the fictional African author T.C.

[13] The review in The New York Times described the novel as "a wildly expansive interrogation of everything from the nature of erotic love to the literary canon.

We traverse the gamut of genres — the mystery, the ghost story, the philosophical novel, the historical novel, the magical realist tale — as Sarr navigates a spider's web that enmeshes fact and fiction, biography and gossip, authenticity and plagiarism, fame and infamy.