by Aminatta Forna · ALFAGUARA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420470221
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«El jardín de las mujeres» is the novel by Aminatta Forna, published by Alfaguara in paperback (392 pages, in Spanish).
Abie returns to Africa to take over the coffee plantations inherited from her grandfather and discovers a more valuable legacy: the memory of her aunts, daughters of four of the eleven wives of a warrior patriarch. Their voices weave a century of stories marked by colonialism, family secrets, exile, and the longed-for return.
The work belongs to Alfaguara's Literaturas collection, translated by Íñigo García Ureta; its original title is 'Ancestor Stones'.
Aimed at adult readers of literary and contemporary fiction, interested in Africa, family memory, and female voices.
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.
