The Devil That Danced on the Water: A Daughter’s Memoir. Aminatta Forna

      

      The Devil that Danced on the Water

      A Daughter’s Memoir of Her Father, Her Family, Her Country and a Continent

      Aminatta Forna

      

      For My Father

      Honour and shame from no condition rise;

       Act well your part: there all the honour lies.From An Essay on Man, Alexander Pope (1733)

      Table of Contents

       Cover Page

       Title Page

       Epigraph

Book One

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2

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4

5

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7

8

9

10

11

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13

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       15

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       25

       26

       27

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       30

       31

       32

       33

       34

       35

       Book Two

       36

       37

       38

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       40

       41

       42

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       Acknowledgements

       About the Author

       Praise

       Copyright

       About the Publisher

Book One

       1

      In the early morning he stands in the doorway of his hut and listens for the distant rumble. The cool air bears the earthy scent of promised rain. From the veranda above I can see the plume of red dust rising in the lorry’s