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The book of secrets : a novel / by M.G. Vassanji.

Title
The book of secrets : a novel / by M.G. Vassanji.
Author
Vassanji, M. G.
Publication
New York : Picador USA, 1997, c1994.

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Description
337 p. : 1 map; 21 cm.
Summary
The diary of a British colonial administrator in East Africa in the 1910s. He is Sir Alfred Corbin who has an affair with his Indian housekeeper. She marries a shopkeeper and gives birth to a fair boy, Ali, later reunited with Corbin in Britain. The diary is recounted by an Indian teacher of our day who gives his own interpretation of Corbin's diary.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Historical fiction
  • Diary fiction
  • Diary fiction.
  • Fiction
  • History
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
0312150687 (pbk.)
LCCN
^^^95044948^
OCLC
  • 42968673
  • SCSB-11670703
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library