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The In-between World of Vikram Lall

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Description for The In-between World of Vikram Lall Paperback. Sweeping in scope, both historically and geographically, the author weaves a rich tapestry of characters (real and imagined) in a Kenya poised between colonialism and independence. He intertwines political and personal - rise of Mau Mau in last days of colonialism looms large over a plot centring on two love stories and a deep friendship. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 29. Weight in Grams: 306. 448 pages. Sweeping in scope, both historically and geographically, the author weaves a rich tapestry of characters (real and imagined) in a Kenya poised between colonialism and independence. He intertwines political and personal - rise of Mau Mau in last days of colonialism looms large over a plot centring on two love stories and a deep friendship. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 196 x 129 x 29. Weight: 358.

Sweeping in scope, both historically and geographically, Vassanji weaves a rich tapestry of vivid characters (real and imagined) in a Kenya poised between colonialism and independence.

Vikram Lall, like his adopted country, inhabits an 'in-between world': between the pull of his ancestral home in India and the Kenya he loves passionately; between his tragic past in Africa and an unclear future in Canada; between escape from political terror and a seemingly inevitable return home . . . a return that may cost him dearly.

A master storyteller, Vassanji intertwines the political and the personal - the rise of ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Canongate Books
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781841956060
SKU
V9781841956060
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About M.G. Vassanji
M.G. Vassanji is the author of five acclaimed novels: The Gunny Sack, which won a regional Commonwealth Writers' Prize; No New Land; The Book of Secrets, which won the very first Giller Prize; Amiriika; and The In-Between World of Vikram Lall, which also received the Giller Prize. He lives in Toronto with his wife and two sons.

Reviews for The In-between World of Vikram Lall
One of the most impressive things about this fine novel is that it gives voice to a people some of whose forebears were in Africa before the Portuguese. It must be one of the most faithful accounts ever written about growing up through the cruel days of a guerrilla war in Africa.
Christopher Hope

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