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Amriika
by Vassanji, M. G
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0771087233
- ISBN 13
- 9780771087233
- Seller
-
Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada
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About This Item
Toronto: Mcclelland & Stewart. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. 0771087233 . New book, unmarked and unread. .
Synopsis
M. G. Vassanji was born in Kenya and raised in Tanzania. Before coming to Canada in 1978, he attended M.I.T., and later was writer-in-residence at the University of Iowa in their prestigious International Writing Program. Vassanji’s fiction to date comprises five novels and a book of short stories: The Gunny Sack (1989), which won a Regional Commonwealth Writers Prize; No New Land (1991); Uhuru Street (short stories, 1992); The Book of Secrets (1994), a national bestseller and the winner of the inaugural Giller Prize; Amriika (1999); and, most recently, The In-Between World of Vikram Lall (2003), which won The Giller Prize. Vassanji was awarded the Harbourfront Festival Prize in 1994, in recognition of his achievement in and contribution to the world of letters, and was in that same year chosen as one of twelve Canadians on Maclean’s Honour Roll. M. G. Vassanji lives in Toronto.
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Details
- Bookseller
- B-Line Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4678
- Title
- Amriika
- Author
- Vassanji, M. G
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0771087233
- ISBN 13
- 9780771087233
- Publisher
- Mcclelland & Stewart
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 1999
- Keywords
- 0771087233, AFRICA, FICTION, POLITICAL
- Bookseller catalogs
- Canadian; Fiction Canada;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
B-Line Books
Biblio member since 2003
Amherst, Nova Scotia
About B-Line Books
B-Line Books is an internet business operating from my large home in Amherst, Nova Scotia. I am a retired English teacher with a lifetime of gathered books for sale. Presently, about 24,000 books in 90 categories are listed with an emphasis in the humanities. I look for books I am interested in myself, and feel that most of the inventory is of high quality. See for yourself.
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