# The Memory of Love

by Aminatta Forna, Sierra Leone, 2010

An African city, where a dying man Elias Cole, reflects on a past obsession: Saffia, the woman he loved, and Julius, her charismatic, unpredictable husband.

Arriving in the wake of war Adrian Lockheart is a psychologist new to this foreign land, struggling with its secrets and the intensity of the heat, dust and dirt, until he finds friendship in Kai Mansaray, a young colleague at the hospital. All three lives will collide in a story about friendship, love, war, about understanding the indelible effects of the past and the nature of obsessive love.

ISBN: 9781408818329

## See also

- [Aminatta Forna](https://africantales.net/authors/aminatta-forna)
- [More from Sierra Leone](https://africantales.net/countries/SLE)
- [Literary Fiction](https://africantales.net/genres/literary-fiction)
- [The 2010s](https://africantales.net/decades/2010s)

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