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And Home Was Kariakoo: A Memoir of East Africa
by Vassanji, M.G
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- ISBN 10
- 0385671431
- ISBN 13
- 9780385671439
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About This Item
U.S.A.: Doubleday Canada, 2014. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Inscribed by former owner back flyleaf otherwise clean and unmarked.. Synopsis: From M.G. Vassanji, two-time Giller Prize winner and a GG winner for nonfiction, 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.
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- Title
- And Home Was Kariakoo: A Memoir of East Africa
- Author
- Vassanji, M.G
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0385671431
- ISBN 13
- 9780385671439
- Publisher
- Doubleday Canada
- Place of Publication
- U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 2014
- Pages
- 384
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
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