The Book of Secrets

The Book of Secrets
ISBN-10
1841956864
ISBN-13
9781841956862
Series
The Book of Secrets
Category
Africa, East
Pages
385
Language
English
Published
2006
Publisher
Canongate Books
Author
M. G. Vassanji

Description

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.

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