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The Memory of Love

by Aminatta Forna

International Dublin · 2012 · Shortlist
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Atlantic Monthly PressHistoryLiterary FictionISBN 9780802119650

Award History

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International Dublin Literary Award2012Shortlist

About This Book

Aminatta Forna's novel is set in post-civil-war Sierra Leone and follows a British psychologist who comes to treat trauma patients and becomes entangled in a doctor's memories of the country's past. Shortlisted for the Dublin Literary Award.

About the Author

Aminatta FornaBritish (Scottish and Sierra Leonean ancestry)

Aminatta Forna, born in 1965 in Bellshill, Scotland, to a Scottish mother and Sierra Leonean father, is a British-Sierra Leonean author whose works explore themes of war, memory, and trauma. Prizes. Her notable novels include The Memory of Love (2010, Commonwealth Writers' Prize), The Hired Man (2013), Happiness (2018), and her memoir The Devil That Danced on the Water (2002); she has received the Windham–Campbell Prize (2014) and OBE (2017).Aminatta Forna official site, International Literature Festival Berlin

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