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The In-Between World Of Vikram Lall

M.G. Vassanji
Barcode 9781841956060
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Release Date: 02/06/2005

Edition: Main
Genre: Fiction
Label: Canongate Books
Language: English
Publisher: Canongate Books

'Belonging in a category with Tolstoy's War and Peace, Vassanji's saga is sweeping in scope . brilliant'
- Janette Turner Hospital in The Globe and Mail

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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 the Mau Mau in the last days of colonialism looms large over a plot centring on two love stories and a deep friendship. The result is a sumptuous novel that brilliantly explores the tyranny of history and memory, and questions the individual's role and responsibility in lawless times.