The Book of Secrets

The Book of Secrets
M.G. Vassanjii
LITERATURE •  1997 •  PAPER  • 337 PAGES

Intrigue, history and politics along East Africa's Swahili Coast. The many machinations of this prize-winning novel revolve around the discovery of a 1913 diary of a British colonial administrator in Dar es Salaam. It evokes the history and atmosphere of the coast, where black, white, Indian and Arab are long intertwined.  (EAF65, $18.00)





 
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