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The In-Between World of Vikram Lall
M.G. Vassanji
Vintage
November 2001
On Sale: November 8, 2004
384 pages
ISBN: 1400076560
EAN: 9781400076567
Kindle: B0012RMVDE
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Vikram Lall comes of age in 1950s Kenya, at the same time
that the colony is struggling towards independence. Against
the unsettling backdrop of Mau Mau violence, Vic and his
sister Deepa, the grandchildren of an Indian railroad
worker, search for their place in a world sharply divided
between Kenyans and the British. We follow Vic from a
changing Africa in the fifties, to the hope of the sixties,
and through the corruption and fear of the seventies and
eighties. Hauntingly told in the voice of the now exiled
Vic, The In-Between World of Vikram Lall is an acute
and bittersweet novel of identity and family, of lost love
and abiding friendship, and of the insidious legacy of the
British Empire.
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