And Home Was Kariakoo
A Memoir of East Africa
Doubleday Canada · Print & ebook · October 14, 2014
From M.G. Vassanji, two-time Giller Prize winner and a GG winner for nonfiction, comes a poignant love letter to his birthplace and homeland, East Africa--a powerful and surprising portrait that only an insider could write.
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- Who it’s for
- A reflective memoir that pairs historical insight with an easy, conversational pull.
- Genres
- East Africa Travel, East African History, Cultural Heritage Lives
- Published
- Doubleday Canada, October 14, 2014
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From M.G. Vassanji, two-time Giller Prize winner and a GG winner for nonfiction, comes a poignant love letter to his birthplace and homeland, East Africa--a powerful and surprising portrait that only an insider could write. Part travelogue, part memoir, and part history-rarely-told, here is a powerful and timely portrait of a constantly evolving land.
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From a description of Zanzibar and its evolution to a visit to a slave-market town at Lake Tanganyika; from an encounter with a witchdoctor in an old coastal village to memories of his own childhood in the streets of Dar es Salaam and the suburbs of Nairobi, Vassanji combines brilliant prose, thoughtful and candid observation, and a lifetime of revisiting and reassessing the continent that molded him--and, as we discover when we follow the journeys that became this book, shapes him still.
Memory and Place
A reflective memoir that pairs historical insight with an easy, conversational pull.
Come here for
- memoir textures of East African history
- book-club friendly cultural context
Expect
- sustained narrative voice
- history filtered through lived memory
Where it sits
| Cultural Heritage Lives | 52% |
|---|---|
| East African History | 41% |
| East Africa Travel | 33% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Writers' Lives
- East African History
- Authors
- M.G. Vassanji
- Publisher
- Doubleday Canada
- Published
- October 14, 2014
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Writers' Lives