Copyright

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer, who may quote brief passages in a review. Any members of educational institutions wishing to photocopy part or all of the work for classroom use, or publishers who would like to obtain permission to include the work in an anthology, should send their inquiries to Grove/Atlantic, Inc., 154 West 14^th Street, New York, NY 10011.

First published in Great Britain in 2002 by HarperCollins Publishers, Hammersmith, London, England

Author photograph and photograph of river scene © Simon Westcott

Printed in the United States of America

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Forna, Aminatta.

The devil that danced on the water : a daughter’s quest / Aminatta Forna.

p. cm.

ISBN 978-0-8021-4048-7

eISBN 978-0-8021-9195-3

1. Forna, Aminatta—Childhood and youth. 2. Forna, Mohamed. 3. Sierra Leone—Politics and government—1961–4. Sierra Leone—Biography. I. Title.

CT2448.F67 A3 2003

966.404'092—dc21

[B]2002028292

Grove Press

an imprint of Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

154 West 14^th Street

New York, NY 10011

Distributed by Publishers Group West