The in-between world of Vikram Lall a novel

✍ Scribed by M.G. Vassanji

• Book ID: 100259490
• Publisher: Doubleday Canada
• Year: 2008;2009
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 236 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0307371921

✦ Synopsis

Double Giller Prize winner M.G. Vassanji's The In-Between World of Vikram Lall __ is a haunting novel of corruption and regret that brings to life the complexity and turbulence of Kenyan society in the last five decades. Rich in sensuous detail and historical insight, this is a powerful story of passionate betrayals and political violence, racial tension and the strictures of tradition, told in elegant, assured prose.

The novel begins in 1953, with eight-year-old Vikram Lall a witness to the celebrations around the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, just as the Mau Mau guerilla war for independence from Britain begins to gain strength. In a land torn apart by idealism, doubt, political upheaval and terrible acts of violence, Vic and his sister Deepa must find their place among a new generation. Neither colonists nor African, neither white nor black, the Indian brother and sister find themselves somewhere in between in their band of playmates: Bill and Annie,...