The Memory of Love

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In contemporary Sierra Leone, a devastating civil war has left an entire populace with secrets to keep In the capital hospital, a gifted young surgeon is plagued by demons that are beginning to threaten his livelihood Elsewhere in the hospital lies a dying man who was young during the country s turbulent postcolonial years and has stories to tell that are far from heroic As past and present intersect in the buzzing city, these men are drawn unwittingly closer by a British psychologist with good intentions, and into the path of one woman at the center of their stories A work of breathtaking writing and rare wisdom, The Memory of Love seamlessly weaves together two generations of African life to create a story of loss, absolution, and the indelible effects of the past and, in the end, the very nature of love. Best Download [ The Memory of Love ] author [ Aminatta Forna ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr After finishing The Memory of Love late last Friday night, I was truly sad to see page 445 arrive It seemed to come so quickly for me I started reading on Wednesday and read non stop anytime I was free through to Friday I could have just been pushed by time since I was discussing it with my book club on Saturday, but actually I just didn t want to do anything else besides read this book I really didn t want that passionate story of memory to end Click the link forAfter finishing The Memory of Love late last Friday night, I was truly sad to see page 445 arrive It seemed to come so quickly for me I started reading on Wednesday and read non stop anytime I was free through to Friday I could have just been pushed by time since I was discussing it w...I can tell I ve finished a moving book when I sit at dinner and explain detail after detail of the book to my non reading husband, and then HE starts asking about it This happened to us last night, sharing a sushi boat, sipping our wine, and discussing the civil war in Sierra Leone which lasted from 1991 2002 this time.To sayThe Memory of Loveis about the civil war in Sierra Leone is to dismiss this as a war novel, but it is much, muchIt s about how war ravishes the minds of its part I can tell I ve finished a moving book when I sit at dinner and explain detail after detail of the book to my non reading husband, and then HE starts asking about it This happened to us last night, sharing a sushi boat, sipping our wine, and discussing the civil war in Sierra Leone which lasted from 1991 ...Beautiful Sprawling Emotional Set in Sierra Leone this is a book that explores all the facets of love and of war through the intertwining stories of three men, Elias Cole, Adrian Lockheart and Kai Mansaray, and their loves, Saffia, Mamakay and Nenebah It explores survivor s guilt, PTSD and the fugue state, marriage, friendship and betrayal I loved the way this book wove the three stories of the men together I enjoyed reading about Elias story the best as he was an utterly fascinating char Beautiful Sprawling Emotional Set in Sierra Leone this is a book that explores all the facets of love and of war through the intertwining stories of three men, Elias Cole, Adrian Lockheart and Kai Mansaray, and their loves, Saffia, Mamakay and Nenebah It explores survivor s guilt, PTSD and the fugue state, marriage, friendship and betrayal I loved the way this book wove the three stories of the men together I enjoyed reading about Elias story the best as he was an u...This novel opens quietly, as if the writer were a doctor, cautiously revealing a wound, warning the reader to look, but don t touch as if she were a psychiatrist, probing delicately at the mind, but who avoids coming too close to the main issues, for fear of doing her patient greater harm The wounds in Aminatta Forna s devastating and beautiful novel The Memory of Love why am I certain the author had another title in mind, but was convinced by her publisher to go with the banal to encourage m This novel opens quietly, as if the writer were a doctor, cautiously revealing a wound, warning the reader to look, but don t touch as if she were a psychiatrist, probing delicately at the mind, but who avoids coming too close to the main issues, for fear of doing her patient greater harm The wounds in Aminatta Forna s devastating and beautiful novel The Memory of Love why am I certain the author had another title in mind, but was convinced by her publisher to go with the banal to encourage mainstream readers Sadly, this is the second novel entitled The Memory of Love I ve read in the past four months and both deserve bet...Forna is a gifted writer, and I want to make clear at the outset that my stars are not based on my estimation of her talent If it was just about the way she can turn a phrase, well there would be no reason to give her anything less than 5 stars She can write, and she does it well in this book The language is lovely However, I did not like this book I just didn t I liked the broad outline of the story I did not like the way the details were filled in It was as though the story is a waterc Forna is a gifted writer, and I want to make clear at the outset that my stars are not based on my estimation of her talent If it was just about the way she can turn a phrase, well there would be no reason to give her anything less than 5 stars She can write, and she does it well in this book The language is lovely However, I did not like this book I just didn t I liked the broad outline of the story I did not like the way the details were filled in It was as though the story is a watercolor on a large canvass, too large to be contained by this book So Forna had to choose a section to focus on She chose the corner character I least cared to have so closely dissected Had she but moved her lens to the left a bit then we would have been in business But, Forna is free to write the story she wants to write, and I m sure there are many who will enjoy seeing this country and this time t...DNFThe Memory of Love is not an awful book Most of my book group enjoyed it though they did seem to agree with me that it took 150 pages to get into I gave up on page 164 or 36%.To be honest, I felt uninspired by the book before I even picked it up A book about love in Sierra Leone Sounds promising but I didn t engage at all with the characters and I felt it was all a bit unemotional The group countered that it waslike real life 1 I get enough real life as it is and 2 I am quite DNFThe Memory of Love is not an awful book Most of my book group enjoyed it though they did seem to agree with me that it took 150 pages to get into I gave up on page 164 or 36%.To be honest, I felt uninspired by the book before I even picked it up A book about love in Sierra Leone Sounds promising but I didn t engage at all with the characters and I felt it was all a bit unemotional The group countered that it waslike real life 1 I get enough real life as it is and 2 I am quite an emotional pers...Incalculable grief cleaves to profound love in this elaborate, helical tapestry of a besieged people in postwar Freetown, Sierra Leone Interlacing two primary periods of violent upheaval, author Aminatta Forna renders a scarred nation of people with astonishing grace and poise an unforgettable portrait of open wounds and closed mouths, of broken hearts and fractured spirits, woven into a stunning evocation of recurrence and redemption, loss and tender reconciliation Forna mines a filament of Incalculable grief cleaves to profound love in this elaborate, helical tapestry of a besieged people in postwar Freetown, Sierra Leone Interlacing two primary periods of violent upheaval, author Aminatta Forna...This book has been described as intricate and that might be an understatement But even with so many moving parts, the author is able to bring them all together beautifully This story illustrates how it can become impossible to distinguish between love, obsession, and infatuation.Intertwined between the romantic love story are illustrations of love s many other facets An uncle and a nephew, a physically deformed man and the pain he endures in hopes of finding a wife, the widow, the mistress, b This book has been described as intricate and that might be an understatement But even with so many moving parts, the author is able to bring them all together beautifully This story illustrates how it can become impossible to distinguish between love, obsession, and infatuation.Intertwined between the romantic love story are illustrations of love s many other facets An uncle and a nephew, a physically deformed man and the pain he endures in hopes of finding a wif...I fall down, I stand upWhere to start, in praise of this amazing book Perhaps from the fact that Aminatta Forna, a woman, writes a novel where all three major characters are men, inhabiting their minds so naturally that it was not until almost the end that I stopped to wonder at it Not that her writing is devoid of the female presence the title of the book is well chosen Whatever else it is, the novel is threaded through with love stories, or rather, in most cases, the memories of love I th I fall down, I stand upWhere to start, in praise of this amazing book Perhaps from the fact...The author of this infelicitously named novel lives in London and was born in Scotland, the daughter of a Scottish mother and Sierra Leonean father who was involved in politics in his native country, ultimately losing his life as a political dissident The Memory of Love has received a number of literary prizes The story takes place in Sierra Leone There are a number of ways that a reader can approach a novel that is set in a country and culture about which he knows little He might focus on c The author of this infelicitously named novel lives in London and was born in Scotland, the daughter of a Scottish mother and Sierra Leonean father who was involved in politics in his native country, ultimately losing his life as a political dissident The Memory of Love has received a number of literary prizes Th...

The Memory of Love
  • English
  • 03 August 2018
  • Hardcover
  • 445 pages
  • 1408808137
  • Aminatta Forna
  • The Memory of Love