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No New Land
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No New Land Paperback - 1997

by Vassanji, M.G

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  • Title No New Land
  • Author Vassanji, M.G
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Thus
  • Condition New
  • Pages 224
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Emblem Editions, Toronto
  • Date 1997-10-11
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 0771087225_used
  • ISBN 9780771087226 / 0771087225
  • Weight 0.5 lbs (0.23 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.51 x 5.27 x 0.46 in (21.62 x 13.39 x 1.17 cm)
  • Themes
    • Topical: Friendship
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  • Library of Congress subjects Canadian fiction - 20th century, Immigrants - Ontario - Toronto
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 92219898
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

From the publisher

M.G. VASSANJI is the author of seven novels, two collections of short stories, and two works of non-fiction. He has won the Giller Prize twice for The Book of Secrets and The In-Between World of Vikram Lall, and the Governor General's Literary Award for Non-Fiction for A Place Within: Rediscovering India. His other novels include The Gunny Sack, No New Land, Amriika, The Assassin's Song, and, most recently, The Magic of Saida. He was born in Kenya and raised in Tanzania, and attended university in the United States. He lives in Toronto with his wife and two sons. www.mgvassanji.com

From the jacket flap

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 propriety prompts him to question the purity of his own thoughts. Ultimately, his friendship with the enlightened Sushila offers him an alluring freedom from a past that haunts him, a marriage that has become routine, and from the trials of coping with teenage children. Introducing us to a cast of vividly drawn characters within this immigrant community, Vassanji is a keen observer of lives caught between one world and another.

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Media reviews

   • "A novel of considerable charm and intelligence, informed by a delightful sense of irony." -- Mordecai Richler


   • "Vassanji probes beneath the surface to create a compelling and poignant portrait of human displacement." -- Ottawa Citizen


   • "It is part of Vassanji's great talent to demonstrate that the minor changes -- unexpected love, sex, accusations -- in the life of a very modest man are, in fact, transformations of history." -- Globe and Mail


   • "Vassanji, in charting a tiny part of the Canadian reality, offers up certain truths, thought-provoking, disturbing, but ultimately, and in a small way, hopeful." -- Saturday Night

About the author

M.G. VASSANJI won the Giller Prize for The Book of Secrets and The In-Between World of Vikram Lall, and the Governor General's Literary Award for Non-Fiction for A Place Within: Rediscovering India. His novel The Assassin's Song was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction. Most recently, his novel Nostalgia was a finalist in Canada Reads 2017.