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The Devil that Danced on the Water: A Daughter's Memoir of her Father, her Family, her Country and a Continent cover

The Devil that Danced on the Water: A Daughter's Memoir of her Father, her Family, her Country and a Continent

Aminatta Forna

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#2443 of 3,809 books · #881 in Biography & Memoir

Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction (2003).

Forna's intensely personal history is a passionate and vivid account of an idyllic childhood that became the stuff of nightmare. "The Devil That Danced on the Water" is a book of pain and anger and sorrow, written with tremendous dignity and beautiful precision: a remarkable and important story of Africa.

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HarperCollins Publishers
Topics
Sierra Leone politicsFather-daughter relationshipPolitical persecution

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