The Memory of Love is one of the best books I have ever read! It was hard to understand at first. Each chapter reveals another character, past and present events of their lives, and the effects of the Sierra Leone war upon all of them. Once I got past the confusion, Aminatta Forna brilliantly ...
I discovered Aminatta Forna when I read her memoir of her childhood in Sierra Leone as the daughter of a Temne doctor and a Scottish mother as well as the search for what happened to her father, who went into politics but refused to be corrupted and who subsequently disappeared. After the civil w...
I hadn’t seen it myself for years. It was among the things we were packing up a few weeks ago.’The garden, a vast sweep of foliage, seems to merge with the sky, heavy black-and-white clouds, brightened by a glint of silver, like far-off lightning. By contrast, beneath his hat the face of the man ...