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Grove Press
September 2007
On Sale: September 10, 2007
336 pages
ISBN: 0802143210
EAN: 9780802143211
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Fiction
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 present, and the legacy that her daughters take with
them wherever they live. 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. Asana, lost twin and head wife’s
daughter. Hawa, motherless child and manipulator of her own
misfortune. Mariama, who sees what lies beyond. And Serah,
follower of a Western made dream. Set against the backdrop
of a nation’s descent into chaos, it is the take a family
and four women’s attempts to alter the course of their own
destiny. A wonderful achievement recalling The God of Small
Things and The Joy Luck Club, it establishes Aminatta Forna
as a gifted novelist.
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