'Forna's voice is relentlessly compelling, her ability to summon atmosphere extraordinary ... A thing of lasting beauty' OBSERVER SHORTLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2019 SHORTLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 2019 A breathtaking novel from...

Aminatta Forna, whose moving and gorgeously written memoir garnered international attention, has seamlessly turned her hand to fiction in Ancestor Stones a powerful, sensuous novel that beautifully captures Africa's past century and her...

"Forna is a born storyteller. . . . Not since Remains of the Day has an author so skillfully revealed the way history's layers are often invisible to all but its participants. . . . Gorgeous.”-John Freeman, The Boston Globe "Haunting . ....

Praised as "a shining example of what autobiography can be: harrowing, illuminating and thoughtful" ("USA Today"), Forna's intensely personal history is a passionate and vivid account of an idyllic childhood that became the stuff of...

Freetown, Sierra Leone, 1969. On a hot January evening that he will remember for decades, Elias Cole first catches sight of Saffia Kamara, the wife of a charismatic colleague. He is transfixed. Thirty years later, lying in the capital's...

"Ein Lied aus der Vergangenheit" von Aminatta Forna ist ein Roman, der tief in die Themen Erinnerung, Trauma und Heilung eintaucht. Die Geschichte spielt in einem westafrikanischen Dorf und verfolgt das Leben von mehreren Charakteren,...