The Memory of Love: Shortlisted for the Orange Prize
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The Memory of Love: Shortlisted for the Orange Prize
The Memory of Love: Shortlisted for the Orange Prize

The Memory of Love: Shortlisted for the Orange Prize

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Aminatta Forna (Author)  

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Shortlisted for the Orange Prize 2011 'A writer of great talent and courage' MONICA ALI 'An affecting, passionate and intelligent novel about the redemptive power of love and storytelling' TELEGRAPH _____________________ Freetown, Sierra Leone, 1969. On a hot January evening that he will remember for decades, Elias Cole first catches sight of Saffia Kamara, the wife of a charismatic colleague. He is transfixed. Thirty years later, lying in the capital's hospital, he recalls the desire that drove him to acts of betrayal he has tried to justify ever since. Elsewhere in the hospital, Kai, a gifted young surgeon, is desperately trying to forget the pain of a lost love that torments him as much as the mental scars he still bears from the civil war that has left an entire people with terrible secrets to keep. It falls to a British psychologist, Adrian Lockheart, to help the two survivors, but when he too falls in love, past and present collide with devastating consequences. The Memory of Love is a heartbreaking story of ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances.
Aminatta Forna was born in Scotlandand raised in West Africa. Her first book, TheDevil that Danced on the Water, was shortlistedfor the Samuel Johnson Prize 2003. Her novelAncestor Stones was winner of the 2008Hurston Wright Legacy Award, theLiteraturpreis in Germany, was nominated forthe International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and selected by the Washington Post as one of the most important books of 2006. In 2007 Vanity Fair named Aminatta as one of Africa's most promising new writers. Aminatta has also written for magazines and newspapers, radio andtelevision, and presented television documentaries on Africa's history and art. Aminatta Forna lives in London with her husband.
  • Contributor: Aminatta Forna
  • Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • ISBN13: 9781408809655
  • Number of Pages: 464
  • Packaged Dimensions: 129x198x28mm
  • Packaged Weight: 328
  • Format: Paperback
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Release Date: 2011-03-07
  • Binding: Paperback / softback
  • Biography: Aminatta Forna was born in Scotlandand raised in West Africa. Her first book, TheDevil that Danced on the Water, was shortlistedfor the Samuel Johnson Prize 2003. Her novelAncestor Stones was winner of the 2008Hurston Wright Legacy Award, theLiteraturpreis in Germany, was nominated forthe International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and selected by the Washington Post as one of the most important books of 2006. In 2007 Vanity Fair named Aminatta as one of Africa's most promising new writers. Aminatta has also written for magazines and newspapers, radio andtelevision, and presented television documentaries on Africa's history and art. Aminatta Forna lives in London with her husband.

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