The Book of Secrets

Details

ISBN-10: 0312150687
ISBN-13: 9780312150686
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
Publish Date: 12/01/1996
Dimensions: 8.40" L, 5.50" W, 1.00" H

The Book of Secrets

byM G Vassanji

Paperback

Price: $23.00

Overview

In 1988, a retired schoolteacher named Pius Fernandes receives an old diary found in the back room of an East African shop. Written in 1913 by a British colonial administrator, the diary captivates Fernandes, who begins to research the coded history he encounters in its terse, laconic entries. What he uncovers is a story of forbidden liaisons and simmering vengeances, family secrets and cultural exiles–a story that leads him on an investigative journey through his own past and Africa’s.

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Reviews

"Rich . . . wonderful . . . entertaining . . . a celebration of storytelling." –David Willis McCullough, The New York Times Book Review

"A love affair with the past . . . [an] exquisite, tender, and possibly great novel." –The New Yorker

"Well-written, mulit-layered, and teasingly inconclusive . . . Offers a view of an area seldom treated in fiction." –The Atlantic Monthly

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Details

ISBN-10: 0312150687
ISBN-13: 9780312150686
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
Publish Date: 12/01/1996
Dimensions: 8.40" L, 5.50" W, 1.00" H
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