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Winner of the 2011 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best BookFrom the award-winning author ofThe Devil That Danced on the WaterandAncestor StonescomesThe Memory of Love,a beautiful and masterfully accomplished novel about the resilience of the human spirit and the driving force of love.Aminatta Forna has established herself as one of the most breathtaking writers out of Africa today, winning readers' hearts and critical acclaim. Now, in her newest novel,The Memory of Love, she evokes the haunting atmosphere of a country at war, and the powerful stories of two generations of African life. In contemporary Sierra Leone, a devastating civil war has left an entire populace with terrible secrets to keep. In the capital hospital Kai, a gifted young surgeon is plagued by demons that are beginning to threaten his livelihood. Elsewhere in the hospital lies Elias Cole, a man who was young during the country's turbulent postcolonial years and has stories to tell that are far from heroic. As past and present intersect in the buzzing city, Kai and Elias are drawn unwittingly closer by Adrian, a British psychiatrist with good intentions, and into the path of one woman at the center of their stories.A work of extraordinary writing and rare wisdom,The Memory of Loveseamlessly weaves together the lives of these three men to create a powerful story of loss, absolution, and the indelible effects of the past-and, at the end of it all, the very nature of love.
Published by Grove Press in 2011.
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ISBN-13: 080214568X
464 pages
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