La memoria del amor / The Memory of Love (Spanish Edition) - Softcover

Forna, Aminatta

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9788466319515: La memoria del amor / The Memory of Love (Spanish Edition)

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ISBN 10: 8466319514 ISBN 13: 9788466319515

Publisher: Punto de Lectura, 2012

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Winner of the 2011 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book. In the capital hospital of a war-devastated Sierra Leone, a gifted young surgeon is plagued by demons. Elsewhere in the hospital lies a man who was young during the country's turbulent postcolonial years. As past and present intersect in the buzzing city, they are drawn unwittingly closer by a British psychiatrist, and into the path of one woman at the center of their stories. A work of extraordinary writing and rare wisdom, The Memory of Love seamlessly weaves together the lives of these three men to create a powerful story of loss, absolution, and the indelible effects of the past and, at the end of it all, the very nature of love. Spanish Description: ''No es amor. Es algo mas, algo con una fuerza que perdura. No es amor, sino una memoria del amor.'' El psicologo Adrian Lockheart desea escapar de su monotona vida en Inglaterra. Asi llega a Freetown, una ciudad africana azotada por la guerra civil y la represion, en la

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