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It is 1953 in colonial Kenya, and eight-year-old Vikram Lall witnesses the celebration of Queen Elizabeth's coronation, even as the Mau Mau guerilla war challenges British rule. Vic and his sister Deepa, whose grandfather came to Kenya from Punjab to build the railways, must find their place in this uncertain world of violent upheaval, confusing loyalties and conflicting ideologies. And among their newly acquired playmates, the brother and sister, neither ...
With the assurance, the mastery of vivid detail, and the ear for the nuances of the voice that have garnered him such admiration, Vassanji weaves twelve haunting tales of lives transplanted, of the traumas small and large of migration, of the bitterness of memory and the unexpected consequences of hope. Meeting his college friend Rusty after years, Diamond is faced once again with a past he had chosen to outgrow and forget. Haunted by the memory of his wife's ...