I Die, But My Memory Lives on

<b>"A deeply moving account of Henning Mankell's personal responses to AIDS and its victims, both parents and children left behind far too soon." --Archbishop Desmond Tutu</b><br> <br> The internationally famous creator of the bestselling Kurt Wallander mysteries tells the true story of 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.<br> <br> 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 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>I Die, but My Memory Lives On</i> and, together with Mankell's narrative, they tell the stories of individual lives while sounding a powerful warning about the threat of AIDS.<br> <br> Featuring a foreword by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the book includes an appendix listing AIDS organizations and resources. A portion of the book's proceeds will be donated to AIDS charities in Africa.