by Aminatta Forna · Bloomsbury Publishing Plc · tapa dura · ISBN 9780747584728
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«Ancestor Stones» is the contemporary fiction novel by Aminatta Forna, published by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc in hardcover (336 pages, in English).
Abie returns to Africa from London after receiving a letter and finds Kholifa Estates, her grandfather's coffee plantation. To reconstruct family memory, she listens to her aunts Asana, Mariama, Hawa and Serah; their stories of war and social change portray a family and a continent in transformation.
Winner of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in 2007 and the LiBeraturpreis in 2008.
For book clubs and readers of literary fiction interested in Africa and family narratives.
Aminatta Forna is a British writer of Scottish and Sierra Leonean ancestry. Her first book was a memoir, The Devil That Danced on the Water: A Daughter's Quest (2002). Since then she has written four novels: Ancestor Stones (2006), The Memory of Love (2010), The Hired Man (2013) and Happiness (2018). In 2021 she published a collection of essays, The Window Seat: Notes from a Life in Motion. (2021), which was a new genre for her.
