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author spotlight
M.G. Vassanji is the author of six acclaimed novels: The Gunny Sack, which won the regional Commonwealth Prize; No New Land; The Book of Secrets, which won the very first Giller Prize; Amriika; The In-Between World of Vikram Lall, which also won the Giller Prize, and The Assassin’s Song, which was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Governor General’s Award for Fiction. He is also the author of two collections of short fiction, Uhuru Street and When She Was Queen, and a work of non-fiction, A Place Within: Rediscovering India. He lives in Toronto with his wife and two... Read More
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The In-Between World of Vikram Lall
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: November 8, 2005
Price: $14.95
Vikram Lall comes of age in 1950s Kenya, at the same time that the colony is struggling towards independence. Against the unsettling backdrop of Mau Mau violence, Vic and his sister Deepa, the grandchildren of an Indian railroad worker, search for their place in a world sharply divided between Kenyans and... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: November 8, 2005
Price: $14.95
Vikram Lall comes of age in 1950s Kenya, at the same time that the colony is struggling towards independence. Against the unsettling backdrop of Mau Mau violence, Vic and his sister Deepa, the grandchildren of an Indian railroad worker, search for their place in a world sharply divided between Kenyans and... Read more >
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A Place Within
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: September 15, 2009
Price: $18.00
A Globe and Mail Best Book
It would take many lifetimes, it was said to me during my first visit, to see all of India. The desperation must have shown on my face to absorb and digest all I possibly could. This was not something I had articulated or resolved; and yet... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: September 15, 2009
Price: $18.00
A Globe and Mail Best Book
It would take many lifetimes, it was said to me during my first visit, to see all of India. The desperation must have shown on my face to absorb and digest all I possibly could. This was not something I had articulated or resolved; and yet... Read more >
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The Assassin's Song
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: August 12, 2008
Price: $14.95
In the aftermath of the brutal violence that gripped western India in 2002, Karsan Dargawalla, heir to Pirbaag – the shrine of a mysterious, medieval sufi – begins to tell the story of his family. His tale opens in the 1960s: young Karsan is next in line after his father to... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: August 12, 2008
Price: $14.95
In the aftermath of the brutal violence that gripped western India in 2002, Karsan Dargawalla, heir to Pirbaag – the shrine of a mysterious, medieval sufi – begins to tell the story of his family. His tale opens in the 1960s: young Karsan is next in line after his father to... Read more >
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No New Land
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: October 11, 1997
Price: $17.00
Nurdin Lalani and his family, Asian immigrants from Africa, have come to the Toronto suburb of Don Mills only to find that the old world and its values pursue them. A genial orderly at a downtown hospital, he has been accused of sexually assaulting a girl. Although he is innocent, traditional... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: October 11, 1997
Price: $17.00
Nurdin Lalani and his family, Asian immigrants from Africa, have come to the Toronto suburb of Don Mills only to find that the old world and its values pursue them. A genial orderly at a downtown hospital, he has been accused of sexually assaulting a girl. Although he is innocent, traditional... Read more >
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Amriika
Format: Trade Paperback, 424 pages
On Sale: November 11, 2000
Price: $16.95
Amriika is a novel of betrayal, disillusionment, and discovery set in America during three highly charged decades in the nation’s history. In the late sixties, Ramji, a student from Dar es Salaam, East Africa, arrives in an America far different from the one he dreamed about, one caught up in anti-war... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 424 pages
On Sale: November 11, 2000
Price: $16.95
Amriika is a novel of betrayal, disillusionment, and discovery set in America during three highly charged decades in the nation’s history. In the late sixties, Ramji, a student from Dar es Salaam, East Africa, arrives in an America far different from the one he dreamed about, one caught up in anti-war... Read more >
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A Place Within
Format: Hardcover, 464 pages
On Sale: November 4, 2008
Price: $31.00
A Globe and Mail Best Book
It would take many lifetimes, it was said to me during my first visit, to see all of India. The desperation must have shown on my face to absorb and digest all I possibly could. This was not something I had articulated or resolved; and yet... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 464 pages
On Sale: November 4, 2008
Price: $31.00
A Globe and Mail Best Book
It would take many lifetimes, it was said to me during my first visit, to see all of India. The desperation must have shown on my face to absorb and digest all I possibly could. This was not something I had articulated or resolved; and yet... Read more >
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The Assassin's Song
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: March 25, 2009
Price: $14.95
In the aftermath of the brutal violence that gripped western India in 2002, Karsan Dargawalla, heir to Pirbaag – the shrine of a mysterious, medieval sufi – begins to tell the story of his family. His tale opens in the 1960s: young Karsan is next in line after his father to... Read more >
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: March 25, 2009
Price: $14.95
In the aftermath of the brutal violence that gripped western India in 2002, Karsan Dargawalla, heir to Pirbaag – the shrine of a mysterious, medieval sufi – begins to tell the story of his family. His tale opens in the 1960s: young Karsan is next in line after his father to... Read more >
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The In-Between World of Vikram Lall
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.95
M. G. Vassanji, author of The Book of Secrets, winner of the first Giller prize, brings us a novel that is rich in sensuous detail and political insight, and brilliantly captures the tyranny of history and memory, and questions one’s role and responsibility in lawless times.
Born in colonial Kenya, Vikram Lall... Read more >
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.95
M. G. Vassanji, author of The Book of Secrets, winner of the first Giller prize, brings us a novel that is rich in sensuous detail and political insight, and brilliantly captures the tyranny of history and memory, and questions one’s role and responsibility in lawless times.
Born in colonial Kenya, Vikram Lall... Read more >
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A Place Within
Format: eBook, 464 pages
On Sale: March 18, 2009
Price: $28.95
A Globe and Mail Best Book
It would take many lifetimes, it was said to me during my first visit, to see all of India. The desperation must have shown on my face to absorb and digest all I possibly could. This was not something I had articulated or resolved; and yet... Read more >
Format: eBook, 464 pages
On Sale: March 18, 2009
Price: $28.95
A Globe and Mail Best Book
It would take many lifetimes, it was said to me during my first visit, to see all of India. The desperation must have shown on my face to absorb and digest all I possibly could. This was not something I had articulated or resolved; and yet... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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