M.G. VASSANJI won the Giller Prize for The Book of Secrets and The In-Between World of Vikram Lall, and the Governor General's Literary Award for Non-Fiction for A Place Within: Rediscovering India. His novel The Assassin's Song was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction. Most recently, his novel Nostalgia was a finalist in Canada Reads 2017.
“Strikingly written . . . beautifully observed, filled with myths,
stories, legends, history, journal entries, and family narratives.
It is an expertly stitched collage and, as much as it reveals about
India, it is a great portrait of Vassanji himself. . . .
Wonderful.” —The Globe and Mail
“Vassanji brings a gifted storyteller’s eye to A Place Within,
drawing entertainingly on extensive journals he kept on his Indian
excursions. . . . He captures both the spiritual and the uglier
sides of India, all the raw fundamentals of life there, but he
always leads with what he sees as India’s ‘essential quality of
tolerance and flexibility,’ and the overwhelming pull of ancestry.”
—Vancouver Sun
“A striking and rich melange of impression and experience, of the
enchantments and disappointments of such an arduous and
long-awaited pilgrimage.” —London Free Press
“A lovely, deeply personal book—one entirely worthy of one of
Canada’s top-shelf talents.” —Edmonton Journal
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