by Aminatta Forna · PUNTO DE LECTURA · tapa dura · ISBN 9788466320023
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«El jardín de las mujeres» is a contemporary fiction novel by Aminatta Forna, published by Punto de Lectura in hardcover (464 pages, in Spanish).
The protagonist, Abie, returns to Africa to claim her grandfather's inheritance: coffee plantations in the village where she played as a child. There she discovers that the true legacy is the memories of her aunts, daughters of four of her grandfather's eleven wives, and a set of oral stories spanning several generations of women.
The edition belongs to Punto de Lectura's Formato Grande series. Originally published as Ancestor Stones, it received the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and the LiBeraturpreis.
For readers of literary fiction and African narrative interested in choral stories of women and family memory.
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.
