The book of secrets, a novel, by M.G. Vassanji
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The book of secrets, a novel, by M.G. Vassanji
Language
eng
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Literary Form
fiction
Main title
The book of secrets
Oclc number
33277606
Responsibility statement
by M.G. Vassanji
Sub title
a novel
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
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