{"id":17873,"date":"2011-11-13T03:03:52","date_gmt":"2011-11-13T03:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=17873"},"modified":"2016-08-25T15:30:02","modified_gmt":"2016-08-25T15:30:02","slug":"the-memory-of-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=17873","title":{"rendered":"The Memory of Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.groveatlantic.com\/#page=isbn9780802145680-all\" target=\"_blank\">The Memory of Love<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.groveatlantic.com\" target=\"_blank\">Grove\/Atlantic, Inc.<\/a><br \/>\nJanuary 2011<br \/>\n464 pages<br \/>\nCloth ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-1965-0<br \/>\nPaperback ISBN 13: 978-0-8021-4568-0<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aminattaforna.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Aminatta Forna<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.groveatlantic.com\/#page=isbn9780802145680-all\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.groveatlantic.com\/bigcovers\/9780802145680.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Winner of the Commonwealth Writers&#8217; Prize for Best Book<\/li>\n<li>Finalist for the Orange Prize for Fiction<\/li>\n<li>An Essence Book Club Pick<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>From the award-winning author of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.groveatlantic.com\/#page=isbn9780802140487-all\" target=\"_blank\">The Devil That Danced on the Water<\/a><\/em> and <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.groveatlantic.com\/#page=isbn9780802143211-all\" target=\"_blank\">Ancestor Stones<\/a><\/em> comes <em>The Memory of Love<\/em>, a beautiful and masterfully accomplished novel about the resilience of the human spirit and the driving force of love.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Aminatta Forna\u2019s <em>The Memory of Love<\/em> has been hailed as a book of rare beauty and importance, and was shortlisted for the 2011 Orange Prize for Fiction. With astounding depth and elegance, it takes the reader through the haunting atmosphere of a country at war, delicately intertwining the powerful stories of two generations of African life.<\/p>\n<p>In contemporary <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Freetown\" target=\"_blank\">Freetown, Sierra Leone<\/a>, a devastating civil war has left an entire populace with secrets to keep. In the capital hospital Kai, a gifted young surgeon is plagued by demons that are beginning to threaten his livelihood. Elsewhere in the hospital lies Elias Cole, a man who was young during the country\u2019s turbulent postcolonial years and has stories to tell that are far from heroic. As past and present intersect in the buzzing city, Kai and Elias are drawn unwittingly closer by Adrian, a British psychiatrist with good intentions, and into the path of one woman at the center of their stories.<\/p>\n<p>A work of breathtaking writing and rare wisdom, <em>The Memory of Love<\/em> seamlessly weaves together the lives of these three men to create a story of loss, absolution, and the indelible effects of the past\u2014and, at the end of it all, the very nature of love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Memory of Love Grove\/Atlantic, Inc. January 2011 464 pages Cloth ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-1965-0 Paperback ISBN 13: 978-0-8021-4568-0 Aminatta Forna Winner of the Commonwealth Writers&#8217; Prize for Best Book Finalist for the Orange Prize for Fiction An Essence Book Club Pick From the award-winning author of The Devil That Danced on the Water and Ancestor Stones [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1295,11,8,15],"tags":[8228,8229,7391],"class_list":["post-17873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-books","category-media-archive","category-novels","tag-aminatta-forna","tag-groveatlantic-inc","tag-sierra-leone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48845,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17873\/revisions\/48845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}