Ancestor Stones

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A powerful, sensuously written novel that, through the lives of women, beautifully captures Africa s past and present, and the legacy that her daughters take with them wherever they live.From the author of The Devil That Danced on the Water a timeless portrait of the lives of a family of independent, spirited African women over the last century of dramatic cultural change Aminatta Forna s The Devil That Danced on the Water was rapturously acclaimed, a moving and gorgeously written memoir that garnered inter national attention Now she has seamlessly turned her hand to fiction and delivers a novel that is lush and beautiful, a touching and intimate portrait of several generations of African women In Ancestor Stones, a young woman from West Africa, who has lived in England for many years and is married to a British man, returns to visit her family after years of civil war Her four aunts have decided to leave her the family coffee plantation, as she is the last person in the family with the means to revive its fortunes And on this trip home she is given an unprecedented look into the lives of the women in her family as her aunts Mary, Hawa, Asana, and Serah women who were mysterious and a bit intimidating to her younger self begin to tell her their stories They are timeless tales of rivalrous co wives, patriarchal society, and old religions challenged by Islamic and Christian incursions they are modern stories of European owned mining companies, the repressive influence of mission schools, corrupt elections, and the postcolonial African elite Through their voices a family history interwoven with the history of a country emerges one of a society both ancient and modern, of a family of strong women refusing to live as second class citizens In her debut foray into fiction, Forna has created a powerful, sensuously written novel that, through the lives of women, beautifully captures Africa s past and present, and the legacy that her daughters take with them wherever they live It is a wonderful achievement that recalls The God of Small Things and The Joy Luck Club, and establishes Forna as a gifted novelist. New Download [ Ancestor Stones ] by [ Aminatta Forna ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr Abie returns home from England to West Africa to visit her family after years of civil war, and to reclaim the family plantation, Kholifa Estates, formerly owned by her grandfather There to meet her are her aunts Asana, Mariama, Hawa, and Serah, and so begins her gathering of the family and the country s history through the tales of her aunts.If you read the description above, you will understand how this is a fixup novel a grouping of stories from the point of various aunts They fit toge Abie returns home from England to West Africa to visit her family after years of civil war, and to reclaim the family plantation, Kholifa Est...Through the multiple points of view of 4 daughters, all from different wives, of a once powerful plantation owner, Ancestor Stones tells the stories of a large extended family and at the same time of Sierra Leone It is very powerful and richly detailed By having the very different aunties share their life experiences with their niece Abby, the author was able depict 4 very different women and how they dealt with life s hardships, marriage and just surviving in the world Some of the stories Through the multiple points of vi...Really excellent about three generations of ordinary women from Sierra Leone all of whom were either the wives, daughters or granddaughters of a rich man Whilst it was an excellent depiction of what plural marriage the man had 11 wives does to women and their children, it is also an excellently drawn story of women s life in Sierra Leone from colonisation to independence and civil war But most of all it shows how strong these women were and how close knit their multi families had to be to su Really excellent about three generations of ordinary women from Sierra Leone all of whom were either the wives, daughters or granddaughters of a rich man Whilst it was an excellent depiction of what plural marriage the man had 11 wive...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 war which nearly destroyed the country, Forna went back to Sierra Leone to visit her family and research her father s fate It was getting to know the women in her father s family that inspired her to wri 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 war which nearly destroyed the country, Forna went back to Sierra Leone to visit her family and research her father s fate It was getting to know the women in her father s family that inspired her to write this book, which, though not set specifically in Sierra Leone, clearly chronicles the experiences of four aunts sisters with different mothers of Abie, an African woman who lives in London married to a white man but returning to her native country to revitalize the family farming business The body of the book consists of 16 sections, four each in the voices of the four sisters as they tell their stories to Abie The e...The story of women in Sierre Leone from the colonisation time until the civil war narrated by four women who are the daughters of different wives of a tribe chief.The language is wonderful and the scenes...Gostei muito deste livro, as 4 estrelas s o, na verdade, mais 4,5, faltou s um bocadinho para chegar ao 5 Est muito bem escrito e transporta nos para frica, atrav s das mem rias de v rias mulheres, cujas vidas se cruzam entre si Os contraste...Ancestor Stones was written by Aminatta Forna who is half Scottish and half Sierra Leonean The novel is set in the West African country of Sierra Leone and reads like a heartfelt dedication to the author s homeland The story traces the lives of four half sisters Asana, Mariama, Hawa and Serah , who all share the same father from 1926 up to 1999 Written in a wonderful vignette style, we get to see four women in four different stages of their lives 1 childhood and relationship with their Ancestor Stones was written by Aminatta Forna who is half Scottish and half Sierra Leonean The novel is set in the West African country of Sierra Leone and reads like a heartfelt dedication to the author s homeland The story traces the lives of four half sisters Asana, Mariama, Hawa and Serah , who all share the same father from 1926 up to 1999 Written in a wonderful vignette style, we get to see four women in four different stages of their lives 1 childhood and relationship with their mother, 2 early adulthood which can include anything from marriage, work and even education for some, 3 adulthood which may or may not see their mother s tribulations repeated in the daughter s life, and finally 4 elderhood, which was tragically ravaged by war Sierra Leone underwent a horrific civil war from 1991 2002 Forna definitely opened my eye...Any story that involves the story line of a significant percentage of a man s eleven wives and their offspring will take some adjustment I had to flip back to the family tree to keep track of whose who But once I found the rhythm and...Een heerlijk boek Het boek vertelt de geschiedenis van Sierra Leone aan de hand van de levensverhalen van vier Afrikaanse vrouwen zalig om zo ondergedompeld te worden in Afrika Ik vond het boek ook prachtig geschreven vol prachtige beelden Aminatta ...Onvan Ancestor Stones Nevisande Aminatta Forna ISBN 871139448 ISBN13 9780871139443 Dar 336 Safhe Saal e Chap 2006

Ancestor Stones
  • English
  • 05 April 2018
  • Hardcover
  • 336 pages
  • 0871139448
  • Aminatta Forna
  • Ancestor Stones