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Edition · 2007-07-02 · Softcover

Ancestor Stones

AFAminatta Forna
2007
year of publication
336
pages
English (United States)
language
Softcover
cover
Publisher
Bloomsbury
ISBN-13
978-07-4758-592-3
EAN
9780747585923
Publication date
2007-07-02
Book
Ancestor Stones · 1 edition
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Abie follows the arc of a letter from London back to Africa to a coffee plantation that now could be hers if she wants it. Standing among the ruined groves she strains to hear the sound of the past, but the layers of years are too many. Thus begins the gathering of her family's history through the tales of her aunts - four women born to four different wives of a wealthy plantation owner, her grandfather. Asana, Mariama, Hawa and Serah: theirs is the story of a nation, a family and four women's attempts to alter the course of her own destiny.