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Atlantic Monthly Pr
January 2011
On Sale: January 4, 2011
464 pages
ISBN: 0802119654
EAN: 9780802119650
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Fiction
Adrian Lockheart is a psychologist escaping his life in
England. Arriving in Freetown in the wake of civil war, he
struggles with the intensity of the heat, dirt and dust, and
with the secrets this country hides. Despite the gulf of
experience and understanding between them, Adrian finds
unexpected friendship in a young surgeon at the hospital,
the charismatic Kai Mansaray, and begins to build a new life
just as Kai makes plans to leave. In the hospital Adrian encounters an elderly and unwell man,
Elias Cole, who is reflecting on his past, not all of it
noble. Recorded in a series of notebooks are memories of his
youth, the optimism of the first moon landings, and the
details of an obsession: Saffia, a woman he loved, and
Julius, her fiery, rebellious husband. As their individual stories entwine across two generations
in a country torn apart by repression and war, some
distances cannot be bridged. The Memory of Love is a
towering tale of ordinary people in extraordinary
circumstances, superbly realised and beautifully written,
horrifying and exhilarating, unflinching and tender, moving
and uplifting. It is the story of four lives colliding; a
story about friendship, about understanding, absolution and
the indelible effects of the past; about journeys and dreams
and loss, and about the very nature of love.
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