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And Home Was Kariakoo

By Vassanji, M. G.

And Home Was Kariakoo Art & Literature

And Home Was Kariakoo

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From M.G. Vassanji, two-time Giller Prize winner and a GG winner for Non-fiction, 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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
402
Release Date:
2016-01-26
Publication Date:
2016-01-26
Publisher:
Random House
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0385671458
ISBN13:
9780385671453
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
393 g
Height:
139 cm
Width:
208 cm
Thickness:
32 cm
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