The hired man by Aminatta Forna

An English family moves into a Croatian village still quietly haunted by what its residents did to each other during the war, and one local man knows exactly why the walls have so many bullet holes. Though set far from Sierra Leone, in a small Croatian town recovering from the Balkan wars, this novel grew directly out of Forna's preoccupation with what postwar communities do with memory and complicity, themes she developed first writing about her home country. Duro, a local handyman hired to fix up a house an English family has just bought, knows the true and violent history behind the property and the village's unspoken grudges, but says almost nothing, letting the reader piece together what everyone else already understands. It's frequently read alongside The Memory of Love as a companion study of trauma's long aftermath.

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