The Memory of Love

I read this book and had formed an opinion about it, but was not satisfied about my opinion which lead me to do some snooping, not about reviews of the book but about the context in which the characters of the novel existed…during the period of 1972 to 2003 in Sierra Leone which is a country in West......more

This novel opens quietly, as if the writer were a doctor, cautiously revealing a wound, warning the reader to look, but don’t touch; as if she were a psychiatrist, probing delicately at the mind, but who avoids coming too close to the main issues, for fear of doing her patient greater harm. The woun......more

Forna is a gifted writer, and I want to make clear at the outset that my stars are not based on my estimation of her talent. If it was just about the way she can turn a phrase, well there would be no reason to give her anything less than 5 stars. She can write, and she does it well in this book. The......more