It holds in its memory all matters of life and death and love.

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Borrego Ranch, in contrast, is like a summer love--a sweet memory, not a life-changing experience.

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He has always spoken of his relationship with school-friend Jimmy Trimble as the love of his life a love, moreover, that has remained untarnished in the writer's memory, as Trimble was killed on Iwo Jima in March 1945.

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In this tight, discreet narrative, which drifts from one memory to another as if love had its own time-scale, the author movingly describes how Jim freed the narrator from the phantoms of her past and the righteousness of her family and friends.

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British author Aminatta Forna's novel The Memory of Love has won best book at the Commonwealth Writers' Prize ceremony in Sydney.

BBC: Aminatta Forna wins Commonwealth Writers' honour

He called The Sea, about a man who confronts his past in a town where he spent a childhood holiday, "a masterly study of grief, memory and love recollected".

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