M.G. Vassanji
M.G. Vassanji is the author of six acclaimed novels: The Gunny Sack, which won the regional Commonwealth Prize; No New Land; The Book of Secrets, which won the very first Giller Prize; Amriika; The In-Between World of Vikram Lall, which also won the Giller Prize, and The Assassin’s Song, which was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Governor General’s Award for Fiction. He is also the author of two collections of short fiction, Uhuru Street and When She Was Queen, and a work of non-fiction, A Place Within: Rediscovering India. He lives in Toronto with his wife and two...
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Trade Paperback | 160 pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction - Short Stories (single author); Fiction - Literary; Fiction
978-0-7710-8726-4 (0-7710-8726-8)
February 17, 2004 | $18.99
By the two-time winner of the Giller Prize for his novels The Book of Secrets and The In-Between World of Vikram Lall
Uhuru Street is M.G. Vassanji’s stunning book of linked stories, set within the Asian community of Dar es Salaam. With delicate strokes, and with irony and humour, Vassanji brings alive...
Trade Paperback | 424 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction
978-0-7710-8725-7 (0-7710-8725-X)
November 11, 2000 | $22.99
Amriika is a novel of betrayal, disillusionment, and discovery set in America during three highly charged decades in the nation’s history. In the late sixties, Ramji, a student from Dar es Salaam, East Africa, arrives in an America far different from the one he dreamed about, one caught up in anti-war...
Trade Paperback | 352 pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction; Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Historical
978-0-7710-8721-9 (0-7710-8721-7)
October 11, 1997 | $21.00
The Book of Secrets is a spellbinding novel of generations and the sweep of history which begins in 1988 in Dar es Salaam when the 1913 diary of a British colonial officer is found in a shopkeeper’s back room. The diary enflames the curiosity of a retired schoolteacher, Pius Fernandes, whose...
Trade Paperback | 224 pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction - Literary; Fiction
978-0-7710-8722-6 (0-7710-8722-5)
October 11, 1997 | $19.99
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...
