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“[An] elegantly written mix of complex history, riveting memoir and damning exposé,” from this award-winning Sierra Leonean author (Publishers Weekly). As a child, Aminatta Forna was witness to the political upheaval and social unrest of post-colonial Africa. Forced to flee her home for exile in B... More

From the award-winning author: A “wonderfully ambitious” novel of West Africa, told through the struggles and dreams of four extraordinary women (The Guardian). When a cousin offers Abie her family’s plantation in the West African village of Rofathane in Sierra Leone, she leaves her husband, child... More

An award-winning Scottish and Sierra Leonean novelist “brilliantly portrays the atmosphere” of Croatia in this haunting tale of war, history, and secrets (The Guardian). Visitors are not common in the small Croatian village of Gost, so Duro is surprised to see a strange car pull up to a well-known... More

“[A] luminous tale of passion and betrayal” set in the post-colonial and civil war eras of Sierra Leone (The New York Times). Winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book As a decade of civil war and political unrest comes to a devastating close, three men must reconcile themselves to ... More

Aminatta Forna's The Devil That Danced on the Water was a rapturously acclaimed, moving, and gorgeously written memoir that garnered international attention. Now she has seamlessly turned her hand to fiction, and delivers a novel that is lush and beautiful, a touching and intimate portrait of the li... More

The prize-winning author of The Memory of Love investigates London&’s hidden nature and marginalized communities in this fascinating novel.London, 2014. A fox makes its way across Waterloo Bridge. The distraction causes two pedestrians to collide—Jean, an American studying the habits of urban foxes,... More

Uno de los mejores libros del año para The Boston Globe y The Independent: una apasionante historia sobre la nostalgia y el olvido, la venganza y el amor, la negación y la culpa, por «una autora de un talento deslumbrante» (Daily Telegraph)Gost, un pueblo croata de veranos abrasadores e inviernos gé... More

Los marineros creyeron que habían encontrado el Edén. Pero no era un Edén creado por Dios, sino por las manos de las mujeres... «Un retrato fiel a África: [...] un hermoso laberinto de palabras.»Trinidad de León-Sotelo, ABC Abie vuelve a África para reclamar una herencia que su abuelo le legó al ... More

One World Two is the eagerly awaited follow-up to One World and another globe-trotting collection of stories. But it is more than simply an anthology of short fiction, as it contains representative literature from all over the world, conveying the reader on thought-provoking journeys across continen... More

From Homer to Tim O’Brien, war literature remains largely the domain of male writers, and traditional narratives imply that the burdens of war are carried by men. But women and children disproportionately suffer the consequences of conflict: famine, disease, sexual abuse, and emotiona... More