The Book Of Secrets

by M . G . Vassanji (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  1995

  $7.10

• Used

  Paperback
  1997

  $21.88

• New

  Paperback
  2006

  $15.00

  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.