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Memento Mori

Memento Mori

Literary FictionClassics
Pages
240
Published
1998
Language
English

Synopsis

In a medical ward for the elderly, Dame Lettie Colston and her fellow residents face the indignities of old age and the looming specter of death. Their mundane existence is disrupted by a series of unsettling phone calls, each delivering the chilling message: 'Remember, you must die.' As they try to uncover the identity of the anonymous caller, the secrets and past transgressions of their lives begin to surface, revealing a darkly humorous and poignant examination of mortality.

Prose complexity
7/10

Vibe

DarkSatiricalMysteriousPhilosophical
Mystery Box

Genres

Literary Fiction Classics Mystery

About the author

M
Muriel Spark

Dame Muriel Spark, DBE was a prolific Scottish novelist, short story writer, and poet whose darkly comedic voice made her one of the most distinctive writers of the twentieth century. Spark received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1965 for The Mandelbaum Gate, the Ingersoll Foundation TS Eliot Award in 1992 and the David Cohen Prize in 1997. She became Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1993, in recognition of her services to literature. In 1998, she was awarded the...

Characters

Dame Lettie ColstonProtagonist
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