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And Home Was Kariakoo

And Home Was Kariakoo

Memoir of an Indian African

M.G. Vassanji
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M.G. Vassanji was born in East Africa, and like many East African Indians of his generation, he emigrated to the West and made a life for himself there. But Africa remained his primal home-the land whose colours and smells most beckoned to him, the land in which his family roots went deepest. In And Home Was Kariakoo he travels to this homeland to draw a vivid portrait of East Africa today-always the melting pot of Asia, Africa and Arabia-and tells the story of the Gujarati Indians of that region for whom Africa is both home and not home.
Entwined through his accounts is the story of Vassanji’s own childhood in Dar es Salaam. Part memoir, part travelogue, part history, And Home Was Kariakoo is an insightful, thoughtful, deeply moving meditation on the Indians of East Africa and what it means to call a place one’s home. It is yet another masterpiece from one of our finest writers.

Imprint: India Hamish Hamilton

Published: Jan/2015

ISBN: 9780670088096

Length : 400 Pages

MRP : ₹499.00

And Home Was Kariakoo

Memoir of an Indian African

M.G. Vassanji

M.G. Vassanji was born in East Africa, and like many East African Indians of his generation, he emigrated to the West and made a life for himself there. But Africa remained his primal home-the land whose colours and smells most beckoned to him, the land in which his family roots went deepest. In And Home Was Kariakoo he travels to this homeland to draw a vivid portrait of East Africa today-always the melting pot of Asia, Africa and Arabia-and tells the story of the Gujarati Indians of that region for whom Africa is both home and not home.
Entwined through his accounts is the story of Vassanji’s own childhood in Dar es Salaam. Part memoir, part travelogue, part history, And Home Was Kariakoo is an insightful, thoughtful, deeply moving meditation on the Indians of East Africa and what it means to call a place one’s home. It is yet another masterpiece from one of our finest writers.

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M.G. Vassanji

M.G.Vassanji is the author of six novels, two collections of stories and two works of non- fiction. His first Novel, The Gunny Sack, won the commonwealth Prize. The Book of Secrets and The In- Between World of Vikram Lall each won the Giller Prize, while the memoir A place within: Rediscovering India won the Governor General's Literary Award for non- fiction. M. G Vassanji was born in Kenya and raised in Tanzania. He now lives in Toronto, Canada.

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