‘A fascinating evocation of the experience of african women, and all that has been gained – and lost – with the passing of old traditions’ ---MARIE CLAIRE
‘She tells stories as she breathes … a prose of soaring beauty’ ---THE TIMES
‘Msmeric, elegant prose … equally extraordinary and vibrant with sadness and joy’ ---DAILY MAIL
‘A writer of startling talent … conveying the human spirit’s irrepressible love of life is the triumph of this magical book’ ---DAILY TELEGRAPH
Rights sales for ANCESTOR STONES:
Translation: Brazil: Companhia Das Letras;
France: Flammarion;
Germany: Berlin;
Holland: Meulenhof;
Italy: Feltrinelli;
Korea: Hong-ik;
Poland: Wab;
Portugal: Porto;
Serbia: Mono & Manjana;
Spain: Santillana
Japanese Subagent: Japan Uni
紐約時報編輯選書(New York Times Editor’s Choice book)
獲得2008 Hurston Wright Legacy獎、德國LiBeraturpreis自由文學獎、獲得全球規模最大小說獎的「國際IMPAC都柏林文學獎」(International IMPACAward)提名
以及被華盛頓時報選為2006最重要的書籍之一
眾多媒體好評
版權已售:
Brazil (Companhia das Letras); France (Flammarion); Germany (Berlin);Holland (Meulenhoff); Italy (Feltrinelli); Korea (Hong-Ik); Poland (WAB); Portugal (Porto); Serbia (Mono & Manjana);Spain (Santillana)
Review
"The jacket copy on Ancestor Stones suggests that this excellent novel resembles The Joy Luck Club. It doesn’t, not really. Aminatta Forna seems here more like Isabel Allende at the height of her early, inspired, politically testifying powers. Forna sees clearly that in human life, the personal and the public are inextricably combined. What goes on in a country reflects what goes on inside its houses, and what goes on in its houses is a refraction of what occurs outside." Read more---The Washington Post
"Forna creates through the voices of these wizened creatures, a richly patterned mosaic of African culture and history. Gorgeous and dreamlike."---Kirkus Reviews (Starred)
"The act of survival is a triumph in such circumstances, and the act of storytelling both a small private rebellion and a duty. Their stories told, Abie notices that ’a certain giddiness had come over my aunts...They’d lifted the past from their own shoulders and handed it to me.’ Forna’s tender, haunting novel is a celebration of the enduring power of such private narratives."---The Sunday Telegraph