Giller Prize-winner M. G. Vassanji gives us a powerfully emotional novel of love and loss, of an African/Indian man who returns to the town of his birth in search of the girl he once loved--and the sense of self that has always eluded him.
Kamal Punja is a physician who has lived in Canada for [...]
From Giller Prize-winner M. G. Vassanji comes the story of Kamal Punja, son of an African mother and an Indian father, who has been living in Canada for forty years. Despite his material wealth, Kamal finds himself longing for the place of his birth--Africa--and of a girl there he once loved. As a c[...]
This haunting novel of corruption and regret brings to life the complexity and turbulence of Kenyan society in the last five decades. It is a powerful story of passionate betrayals and political violence, racial tension and the strictures of tradition, told in elegant, assured prose.[...]
Pius Fernandes, a retired schoolteacher living in modern-day Dar es Salaam, discovers an old diary in the back room of an East African shop. Dating from 1913, it is an account of the Asian community of East Africa by a British colonial administrator. The diary inflames his curiosity and leads him to[...]