| Author/Contributor(s): | Vassanji, M.G. |
| Publisher: | Picador USA |
| Date: | 12/15/1996 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
In 1988, a retired schoolteacher named Pius Fernandes receives an old diary found in the back room of an East African shop. Written in 1913 by a British colonial administrator, the diary captivates Fernandes, who begins to research the coded history he encounters in its terse, laconic entries. What he uncovers is a story of forbidden liaisons and simmering vengeances, family secrets and cultural exiles--a story that leads him on an investigative journey through his own past and Africa's.