· the magic of saida by M.G. Vassanji ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 6, Vassanji (The Assassin’s Song, , etc.) employs dense yet splintered prose to mirror the dense yet splintered identity of his multicultural/multiethnic protagonist, a successful Canadian doctor who was born in Tanzania to an African mother and Indian www.doorway.ru: M.G. Vassanji. From Giller Prize–winner M. G. Vassanji comes the story of Kamal Punja, son of an African mother and an Indian father, who has been living in Canada for forty years. Despite his material wealth, Kamal finds himself longing for the place of his birth—Africa—and of a girl there he once loved.4/5(32). · At once dramatic, searching, and intelligent, The Magic of Saida moves deftly between the past and present, painting both an intimate picture of passion and betrayal and a broad canvas of political promise and failure in contemporary Africa. It is a timeless story—and a story very much of our own time/5(2).
T he Magic of Saida takes us back to the East Africa of M.G. Vassanji's earlier work (and Giller wins), after a departure to India with A Place Within: Rediscovering India and his last novel, The Assassin's Song.. For Vassanji, though, India is never a departure, or rather, being of Indian descent is not, because it is this experience of dual and sometimes dueling heritage that. The Magic of Saida is as ambitious and sprawling as it is compelling." —Susi Wyss, Washington Independent Review of Books "Vassanji's remarkable new novel is a magic trick that reveals how it's performed while in process As Kamal relates the colonial history, [it] amounts to the best sort of historical fiction. The Magic of Saida. M.G. Vassanji. • 2 Ratings; $; $; Publisher Description. Giller Prize-winner M. G. Vassanji gives us a powerfully emotional novel of love and loss, of an African/Indian man who returns to the town of his birth in search of the girl he once loved—and the sense of self that has always eluded him.
The Magic of Saida by M.G. Vassanji M.G. Vassanji has long been a favorite writer of mine. I’ve had The Magic of Saida sitting on my shelf for years now – it moved from Canada to Scotland with us – but it just hasn’t been calling to me. About The Magic of Saida. From Giller Prize–winner M. G. Vassanji comes the story of Kamal Punja, son of an African mother and an Indian father, who has been living in Canada for forty years. Despite his material wealth, Kamal finds himself longing for the place of his birth—Africa—and of a girl there he once loved. Open Book: The Magic of Saida, by M.G. Vassanji. M.G. Vassanji's latest includes echoes of ancient India, unhealed wounds of African slavery, the religion of Arabia, popular songs from North.
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