Books by Aminatta Forna
“It’s about Adrian Lockhart who is a psychologist in Sierra Leone and talking to Elias Cole, who is telling him his story. He also befriends a doctor. The doctor is trying to heal people physically affected by the war, whereas Adrian is trying to deal with those people affected psychologically. So it encompasses both aspects of the effects of war…It’s the unravelling of things that affect all the people in the story. You don’t just hear, ‘Oh, this happened, and this happened, and this happened.’ It’s a very close study of what is happening with the person and then a revelation of why that is happening. I thought that was masterfully done, it was very well-crafted. There was always something at the end of the character’s story that you discovered, and made you think, ‘Wow’. I thought it was a very strong piece of storytelling.” Read more...
Blessing Musariri, Novelist
Interviews where books by Aminatta Forna were recommended
The Best African Novels, recommended by Blessing Musariri
“We are connected to the spirit and it’s an active connection. It’s not somewhere that’s only in the afterlife, it’s here in the present as well. That, I think, is endemic across all African cultures and traditions,” says Zimbabwean novelist and poet Blessing Musariri. Here she recommends some of the best African novels, books that had a big personal impact and have stayed with her.
