by Aminatta Forna · ALFAGUARA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420406237
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«La memoria del amor» is the contemporary novel by Aminatta Forna, published by Alfaguara in paperback (576 pages, in Spanish).
Psychologist Adrian Lockheart leaves his routine in England and arrives in Freetown, ravaged by civil war. There he crosses paths with Kai Manseray, a young doctor with a secret, and with Elias Cole, an elderly man whose notebooks evoke an obsession: Saffia, the great love of his youth. A novel about the consequences of actions and the nature of love.
The novel belongs to the Literaturas collection from Alfaguara. Original title: The Memory of Love. The novel won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize 2011 and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize in 2011.
For readers of literary and contemporary fiction with a historical backdrop, as well as for reading groups interested in African literature.
Aminatta Forna is a British writer of Scottish and Sierra Leonean ancestry. Her first book was a memoir, The Devil That Danced on the Water: A Daughter's Quest (2002). Since then she has written four novels: Ancestor Stones (2006), The Memory of Love (2010), The Hired Man (2013) and Happiness (2018). In 2021 she published a collection of essays, The Window Seat: Notes from a Life in Motion. (2021), which was a new genre for her.
