It is a place she remembers from childhood and which now belongs to her-if she wants it. Hardcover, Paperback, Kindle, iBook, AudioĪbie has followed the arc of a letter from London back to Africa, to the coffee groves of Kholifa Estates, the plantation formerly owned by her grandfather.
Bloomsbury (UK), Atlantic Monthly Press (USA).^ "LiBeraturpreis 2008 goes to Aminatta Forna (in German)"."Arts & Living: Books: New Chapters In the Story of Africa's People Are Honored". Forna (The Devil That Danced on the Water, 2003) creates, through the voices of these wizened creatures, a richly patterned mosaic of African culture and history. Forna's work sheds light on the history of a long-struggling nation. beautifully crafts an intimate portrait of the evolution of one West African community. Because of the shifting time periods, the array of names, and the complicated family connections, the characters blend together, and it is difficult to identify each from one story to the next. Archived from the original on 2 February 2017. Ancestor Stones reads much like a memoir but-perhaps for that reason-is less compelling than her earlier work. Forna conveys the complexity of life in small African villages. ^ "Sunday Book Review: As It Really Was".2010 Aidoo-Snyder Book Award - winner (best creative work).2007 Hurston-Wright Legacy Award Debut Fiction - winner." "ridiculous", but found it "a wonderfully ambitious novel written from the inside" and concluded "This is her first novel, but it is too sophisticated to read like one." Īncestor Stones has also been reviewed by Booklist, Choice Reviews, Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, African Business, Entertainment Weekly, and The New Yorker. Uzodinma Iweala reviewing Ancestor Stones "wanted to know more: how the characters feel about one another, not just how they feel about the chaotic events they’re describing." Bernardine Evaristo, writing in The Guardian, found the book's backcover blurb, "The Story of 20th-century Africa. Ancestor Stones is a 2006 novel by Aminatta Forna about the experiences of four women in a polygamous family in West Africa.
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