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THE BOOK OF SECRETS.

THE BOOK OF SECRETS.

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THE BOOK OF SECRETS.

by Vassanji, M. G

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0312140835
ISBN 13
9780312140830
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New York:: Picador,, (1996). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. First US printing. A novel which opens in 1988, with retired schoolteacher Pius Fernandes discovering the 1913 diary of a British colonial administrator, which draws him into the history of the Asian community of East Africa and the liaisons, secrets, and feelings of its people. Winner of the first Giller Prize in - the jury citation called it Part generational history, part detective story, part social chronicle, the novel is a living tapestry to join the past to the present." Glossary. Map frontispiece. 337 pp.

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M.G. Vassanji was born in Kenya, and raised in Tanzania. He took a doctorate in physics at M.I.T. and came to Canada in 1978. While working as a research associate and lecturer at the University of Toronto in the 1980s he began to dedicate himself seriously to a longstanding passion: writing. His first novel, The Gunny Sack , won a regional Commonwealth Writers Prize, and he was invited to be writer-in-residence at the University of Iowa. The novel’s success was a spur, Vassanji has commented: “It was translated into several languages. I was confident that this was what I could do, that writing was not just wishful thinking. In 1989 I quit my full-time job and began researching The Book of Secrets .” That celebrated, bestselling novel won the inaugural Giller Prize, in 1994. Vassanji’s other books include the acclaimed novels No New Land (1991) and Amriika (1999), and Uhuru Street (1991), a collection of stories. His unique place in Canadian literature comes from his elegant, classical style, his narrative reach, and his interest in characters trying to reconcile different worlds within themselves. The subtle relations of the past and present are also constants in his writing: “When someone asks you where you are from or who you are, there is a whole resume of who you are. I know very few people who do not have a past to explain. That awareness is part of my work.” M.G. Vassanji was awarded the Harbourfront Festival Prize in 1994 in recognition of his achievement in and contribution to the world of letters, and was in the same year chosen as one of twelve Canadians on Maclean’s Honour Roll. He lives in Toronto with his wife and two sons.

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Bookseller's Inventory #
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Title
THE BOOK OF SECRETS.
Author
Vassanji, M. G
Format/Binding
Hardcover first edition -
Book Condition
Used - Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Jacket Condition
like
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 10
0312140835
ISBN 13
9780312140830
Publisher
Picador,
Place of Publication
New York:
Date Published
(1996)
Keywords
giller prize, east africa, historical fiction, asian community,
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