Overview
When Pius Fernandes, a retired schoolteacher living in modern day Dar es Salaam, discovers a diary of a British colonial administrator from 1913, he is drawn into a provocative account of the Asian community of East Africa, and the liaisons, feelings and secrets of its people, over the course of a century.
When Pius Fernandes, a retired schoolteacher living in modern day Dar es Salaam, discovers a diary of a British colonial administrator from 1913, he is drawn into a provocative account of the Asian community of East Africa, and the liaisons, feelings and secrets of its people, over the course of a century.
Part generational history, part detective story, part social chronicle, M.G. Vassanji''s award-winning novel magnificently conjures setting and period as it explores notions of identity and exile.
- | Author: M.G. Vassanji
- | Publisher: Canongate Books
- | Publication Date: Feb 23, 2006
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- | Binding: Paperback / softback
- | ISBN-13: 9781841956862
- | ISBN-10: 1841956864