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2014., Adult, Doubleday Canada Call No: Bio V111a Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: From and a GG winner for non-fiction for his previous memoir, A Place Within: Rediscovering India, 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; Vassanji combines brilliant prose, thoughtful and candid observations. Born in Kenya and raised in Tanzania, Canadian author M.G. Vassanji is a two-time Giller Fiction Prize winner, for The Book of Secrets and The In-Between World of Vikram Lall. He lives in Toronto.
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-- Inbetween world of Vikram Lall :c2003., Doubleday Canada Call No: Fic Vas Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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c2012., Adult, Doubleday Canada Call No: Fic Vas Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Two-time Giller Prize winner Vassanji returns to the rich and haunting world of his most acclaimed, prize-winning novels, the East African coast. The haunting story of Kamal, a successful Canadian doctor who, in middle age and after decades in North America, decides to return to his homeland of East Africa to find his childhood sweetheart, Saida. Kamal's journey is motivated by a combination of guilt, hope, and the desire to unravel the mysteries of his childhood.
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2009., Penguin Canada Call No: Bio R5315v Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Extraordinary Canadians
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2016., Adult, Doubleday Canada Call No: Fic Vas Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "In the indeterminate future in an unnamed western city, physical impediments to immortality have been overcome. As society approaches the prospect of eternal life, a new problem must be confronted: with the threat of the brain's storage capacity being overwhelmed, people want to move forward into the future free from redundant, unwanted and interfering memories. Rejuvenated bodies require rejuvenated identities--all traces of a person's past are erased and new, complete fictions are implanted in their stead. On occasion, though, cracks emerge, and reminders of discarded lives seep through. Those afflicted suffer from Leaked Memory Syndrome, or Nostalgia, whereby thoughts from a previous existence burrow in the conscious mind threatening to pull sufferers into an internal abyss. Doctor Frank Sina specializes in sealing these memory leaks. He is satisfied in his profession, more or less secure in the life he shares with his much younger lover, content with his own fiction--a happy childhood in the Yukon, an adulthood marked by the influence of a mathematician father and poet mother. But one day, Presley Smith arrives in Frank's office. Persistent thoughts are torturing Presley, recurring images of another time and place. As he tries to save Presley from the onslaught of memory, Frank finds clues that suggest Presley's past may be located in war-torn, nuclear-ravaged Maskinia, a territory located in the southern hemisphere, isolated from the north by fiercely guarded borders and policy barriers. Frank's suspicions are only intensified when the Department of Internal Security takes an interest in Presley. They describe him as one of their own, meaning his new life was one they created for him, and they want him back. Who was Presley before the Department remade him, what secrets are buried in the memories that are encroaching upon him? As Frank tries to save Presley from both internal and external threats, cracks emerge in his own fiction, and the thoughts that sneak through suggest a connection with the mysterious Presley that goes well beyond a doctor and his patient."--From publisher.
