The Memory of Love is a towering tale of ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances, superbly realized and beautifully written, horrifying and exhilarating, unflinching and tender, moving and uplifting. It is the story of four lives colliding; a story about friendship, about understanding, absolution and the indelible effects of the past; about journeys and dreams and loss, and about the very nature of love. · R eading Aminatta Forna's second novel, The Memory of Love, I found myself returning again and again to an assignment that took me to Freetown, Sierra Leone in Estimated Reading Time: 5 mins. Aminatta Forna was born in Scotland. and raised in West Africa. Her first book, The. Devil that Danced on the Water, was shortlisted. for the Samuel Johnson Prize Her novel. Ancestor Stones was winner of the Hurston Wright Legacy Award, the. Literaturpreis in Germany, was nominated for4/5(5).
Aminatta Fornas The Memory of Love is the first major novel of the new decade." Charles R. Larson, Counter Punch (Online) Aminatta Fornas third novel tells the stories of normal people struggling, in the aftermath of terrible violence, to survive the psychological and social impacts of what they experienced in [Sierra Leones] brutal civil war. Aminatta Forna grew up in her father's native Sierra Leone during the years preceding its devastating civil war. Awarded the Commonwealth Writers' Prize in , her novel Memory of Love begins in , at the dawn of peace after ten years of civil war, and grapples with how survivors of widespread wartime atrocities cope with their collective trauma. Aminatta Forna was born in Glasgow and raised in Sierra Leone and the United Kingdom. She is the author of The Memory of Love, Ancestor Stones, The Devil that Danced on the Water, and The Memory of Love, which has been selected as one of the Best Books of the Year by the Sunday Telegraph, Financial Times and Times. In Forna helped to build a primary school in her family's village of Rogbonko.
R eading Aminatta Forna's second novel, The Memory of Love, I found myself returning again and again to an assignment that took me to Freetown, Sierra Leone in The Memory of Love is a towering tale of ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances, superbly realized and beautifully written, horrifying and exhilarating, unflinching and tender, moving and uplifting. It is the story of four lives colliding; a story about friendship, about understanding, absolution and the indelible effects of the past; about journeys and dreams and loss, and about the very nature of love. In Vanity Fair named Aminatta as one of Africa's most promising new writers. Aminatta has also written for magazines and newspapers, radio and. television, and presented television documentaries on Africa's history and art. Aminatta Forna lives in London with her husband.
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