The Devil that Danced on the Water - A Daughter's Memoir

Flamingo / Harper Collins Publishers, 2002. Minor foxing, spine very faded, otherwise good secondhand condition.

Aminatta Forna's intensely personal history is a passionate and vivid account of an African childhood, of an idyll which became the stuff of nightmare. As a child she witnessed the upheavals of post-colonial Africa, danger, flight, the bitterness of exile in Britain, and the terrible consequences of her dissident father's stand against tyranny...