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Vassanji, M G
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Fiction
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2005
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Doubleday Canada
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en-US
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*Memory, Ji Bai would say, is this old sack here, this poor dear that nobody has any use for any more.* As the novel begins, Salim Juma, in exile from Tanzania, opens up a gunny sack bequeathed to him by a beloved great-aunt. Inside it he discovers the past -- his own family's history and the s