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The Devil That Danced on the Water - A Daughter's Quest (Reissue ed.)
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The Devil That Danced on the Water - A Daughter's Quest (Reissue ed.)
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Praised as "a shining example of what autobiography can be:
harrowing, illuminating and thoughtful" (USA Today), Aminatta
Forna's intensely personal history is a passionate and vivid
account of an idyllic childhood which became the stuff of
nightmare. As a child she witnessed the upheavals of post-colonial
Africa, danger, flight, the bitterness or exile in Britain and the
terrible consequences of her dissident father's stand against
tyranny. Mohamed Forna was a man of unimpeachable integrity and
enchanting charisma. As Sierra Leone faced its future as a
fledgling democracy, he was a new star in the political firmament,
a man who had been one of the first black students to come to
Britain after the war. He stole the heart of Aminatta's mother to
the dismay of her Presbyterian parents and returned with her to
Sierra Leone. But as Aminatta Forna shows with compelling clarity,
the old Africa was torn apart by new ways of western parliamentary
democracy, which gave birth only to dictatorships and corruption of
hitherto undreamed-of magnitude. It was not long before Mohamed
Forna languished in jail as a prisoner of conscience, and worse to
follow. Aminatta's search for the truth that shaped both her
childhood and the nation's destiny began among the country's elite
and took her into the heart of rebel territory. Determined to break
the silence surrounding her father's fate, she ultimately uncovered
a conspiracy that penetrated the highest reaches of government and
forced the nation's politicians and judiciary to confront their
guilt. 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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Imprint: |
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
October 2023 |
Authors: |
Aminatta Forna
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Pages: |
512 |
Edition: |
Reissue ed. |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8021-6086-7 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
0-8021-6086-7 |
Barcode: |
9780802160867 |
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