The devil that danced on the water : a daughter's memoir of her father, her family, her country, and...
The devil that danced on the water : a daughter's memoir of her father, her family, her country, and...
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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London : HarperCollins, 2002.
Date
2002.
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N966.40409/1
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English
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viii, 403 p. ; 24 cm.
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Publisher
London : HarperCollins, 2002.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2002.
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"Aminatta Forna's 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.".
"Aminatta's search for the truth that shaped both her childhood and the nation's destiny begins 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 polit...
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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 / Aminatta Forna.
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N966.40409/1
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74Vv4E6LPO3l
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74Vv4E6LPO3l
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ISBN
0002570653
9780002570657
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966.404092
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991015508909702626
