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Ancestor stones

When Abie's family leave her a coffee plantation, she returns to Africa to find herself in a place suspended between past and present; between the real world and the unworldly.Standing among the ruined groves she strains to hear the sound of the past, but 'the layers of years in between us were too many'. So begins her gathering of the past through the stories of her four aunts - Asana, Mary, Hawa and Serah. Each woman recounts her life from a mass of muddied memories and vivid recollections of the father they feared, the men they loved, the mothers who left them, and above all, the secrets they shared. What also emerges is the story of an Africa drawn to the temptations of the West but desperate to cling to its own ways.

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  • "When Abie's family leave her a coffee plantation, she returns to Africa to find herself in a place suspended between past and present; between the real world and the unworldly.Standing among the ruined groves she strains to hear the sound of the past, but 'the layers of years in between us were too many'. So begins her gathering of the past through the stories of her four aunts - Asana, Mary, Hawa and Serah. Each woman recounts her life from a mass of muddied memories and vivid recollections of the father they feared, the men they loved, the mothers who left them, and above all, the secrets they shared. What also emerges is the story of an Africa drawn to the temptations of the West but desperate to cling to its own ways."@en
  • "Abie has followed the arc of a letter from London back to the coffee groves of the plantation formerly owned by her grandfather. It is a place she remembers from childhood and which now belongs to her - if she wants it. So begins her gathering of the family's history through the tales of her aunts. This is the story of four lives: Asana, Mariama, Hawa and Serah Kholifa, born to the different wives of a wealthy plantation owner in an Africa where change is just beginnning to arrive. Stretching across generations, Ancestor Stones is the story of a nation, a family and four women's attempts to alter the course of their own destiny."@en
  • "When Abie's family leave her a coffee plantation, she returns to Africa to find herself in a place suspended between past and present; between the real world and the unworldly. Standing among the ruined groves she strains to hear the sound of the past, but 'the layers of years in between us were too many'. So begins her gathering of the past through the stories of her four aunts - Asana, Mary, Hawa and Serah. Each woman recounts her life from a mass of muddied memories and vivid recollections of the father they feared, the men they loved, the mothers who left them, and above all, the secrets they shared. What also emerges is the story of an Africa drawn to the temptations of the West but desperate to cling to its own ways."@en
  • "When Abie's family leave her a coffee plantation, she returns to Africa to find herself in a place suspended between past and present; between the real world and the unworldly. Standing among the ruined groves she strains to hear the sound of the past, but 'the layers of years in between us were too many'. So begins her gathering of the past through the stories of her four aunts - Asana, Mary, Hawa and Serah. Each woman recounts her life from a mass of muddied memories and vivid recollections of the father they feared, the men they loved, the mothers who left them, and above all, the secrets they shared. What also emerges is the story of an Africa drawn to the temptations of the West but desperate to cling to its own ways."
  • "Abie, installée à Londres, reçoit un jour une lettre en provenance d'Afrique qui lui apprend qu'elle est la dernière à pouvoir sauver le domaine familial de Kholifa. Elle décide de retourner au pays où, à travers le récit de ses tantes, Asana, Mariama, Hawa et Serah, elle va entreprendre de reconstituer l'histoire familiale."
  • "A young West African woman, who has been living in England for years and is married to a British man, returns to visit her family after years of civil war and receives an extraordinary look into the lives of the women in her family over the past century."@en
  • "In tales of love, marriage, war and woman's subtle triumph, Serah, Mary, Hawa and Asana lift the past from their shoulders and hand it to their niece as a luminous treasure trove of memories, of lives lived, terrors faced and pleasures tasted."
  • "A dark rock the shape of a man's cigar. A broken pebble, open like a split plum. A stone with a dimple that fitted my thumb. A twinkling crystal. A pale three-cornered stone. I won't say I found them quickly. Not at all. Bobbio helped me. But even then, there were some I never found, whose faces I did not remember as well as I imagined. The Ancestors, my mother called them."

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  • "Belletristische Darstellung"@en
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)"@en
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Large type books"
  • "Large type books"@en
  • "Historical fiction"@en

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  • "Maanschaduw : roman"
  • "Abies Steine"
  • "Kamienie przodków"
  • "Kamienie przodków"@pl
  • "Le pietre degli avi"@it
  • "Le pietre degli avi"
  • "Ancestor stones"@en
  • "Ancestor stones"
  • "El jardín de las mujeres"@es
  • "El jardín de las mujeres"
  • "Jardim de mulheres"
  • "Les jardins des femmes"
  • "Ancestor Stones"

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