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And home was Kariakoo : a memoir of East Africa / M.G. Vassanji.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780385671439 (hardcover) :
- Physical Description: xiv, 384 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm.
- Publisher: Toronto : Doubleday Canada, [2014]
- Copyright: ©2014
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| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Stroud Branch | 819.354 Vassa | 31681002491975 | NONFIC | Available | - |
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The author discusses his life growing up in East Africa describing the unique places and experiences that shaped him. - Random House, Inc.
From M.G. Vassanji, two-time Giller Prize winner and a GG winner for nonfiction, comes a poignant love letter to his birthplace and homeland, East Africa--a powerful and surprising portrait that only an insider could write.
Part travelogue, part memoir, and part history-rarely-told, here is a powerful and timely portrait of a constantly evolving land. From a description of Zanzibar and its evolution to a visit to a slave-market town at Lake Tanganyika; from an encounter with a witchdoctor in an old coastal village to memories of his own childhood in the streets of Dar es Salaam and the suburbs of Nairobi, Vassanji combines brilliant prose, thoughtful and candid observation, and a lifetime of revisiting and reassessing the continent that molded him--and, as we discover when we follow the journeys that became this book, shapes him still.
