A Place Within: Rediscovering India
by Vassanji, M.G
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- New/New
- ISBN 10
- 0385661789
- ISBN 13
- 9780385661782
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About This Item
Doubleday Canada, 2008. 1st Edition . Hardcover. New/New. 24-18-4. Book Is In New Condition. For More Information On Condition. Please See All Photos A Globe And Mail Best Book It Would Take Many Lifetimes, It Was Said To Me During My First Visit, To See All Of India. The Desperation Must Have Shown On My Face To Absorb And Digest All I Possibly Could. This Was Not Something I Had Articulated Or Resolved; And Yet I Recall An Anxiety As I Travelled The Length And Breadth Of The Country, Senses Raw To Every New Experience, That Even In The Distraction Of A Blink I Might Miss Something Profoundly Significant. I Was Not Born In India, Nor Were My Parents; That Might Explain Much In My Expectation Of That Visit. Yet How Many People Go To The Homeland Of Their Grandparents With Such A Heartload Of Expectation And Momentousness; Such A Desire To Find Themselves In Everything They See? Is It Only India That Clings Thus, To Those Who'Ve Forsaken It; Is This Why Indians In A Foreign Land Seem Always So Desperate To Seek Each Other Out? What Was India To Me? The Inimitable M.G. Vassanji Turns His Eye To India, The Homeland Of His Ancestors, In This Powerfully Moving Tale Of Family And Country. Part Travelogue, Part History, A Place Within Is M.G. Vassanji'S Intelligent And Beautifully Written Journey To Explore Where He Belongs.
Synopsis
M.G. Vassanji is the author of the acclaimed novels The Assassin’s Song , shortlisted for the 2007 Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Governor General’s Award for Fiction, The Gunny Sack , which won a regional Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, No New Land , and Amriika . He has twice been awarded the Giller Prize, for his novels The Book of Secrets and The In-Between World of Vikram Lall . Vassanji lives in Toronto.
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- Bookseller
- Alright Bookstore (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002622
- Title
- A Place Within: Rediscovering India
- Author
- Vassanji, M.G
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0385661789
- ISBN 13
- 9780385661782
- Publisher
- Doubleday Canada
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 2008
- Pages
- 464
- Size
- 24-18-4
- Keywords
- Cultural, Canada, India, Travel, Nonfiction, Biography, Nonfiction, Book Lover, Bookworm, Bookish, Book Nerd, Glass Castle, Writing Community, India & South Asia, India
- Bookseller catalogs
- Autobiography - Biography - Memoir;
- X weight
- 900 g
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