The Memory Of Love
NGN17,760
*The memory of love*
A catastrophic civil war in Sierra Leone today has left the entire population with secrets to keep. A talented young surgeon in the capital hospital is being threatened by demons that are plaguing him on a daily basis. A dying man who lived through the stormy postcolonial years of the country and has stories to tell that are far from heroic is lying in another room of the hospital. These guys are drawn unintentionally closer by a British psychologist with good intentions and into the path of the one woman at the center of their stories as past and present collide in the bustling city.
The Memory of Love is a work of exquisite writing and rare knowledge that masterfully weaves together two generations of African life to tell a tale of grief, forgiveness, the lasting impacts of the past, and ultimately, the very nature of love.
*The author*
Aminatta Forna, OBE, is a Scottish and Sierra Leonean author who was born in 1964. She has written four novels: Happiness (2018), Ancestor Stones (2006), The Memory of Love (2010), The Hired Man (2013), and The Devil That Danced on the Water: A Daughter’s Quest. Her book The Memory of Love was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction and won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for “Best Book” in 2011. Currently a professor of creative writing at Bath Spa University, Forna previously held the position of Sterling Brown Distinguished Visiting Professor at Massachusetts’ Williams College. She presently serves as the Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice’s Director and Lannan Foundation Chair of Poetics at Georgetown University.
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