Quite a fascinating angle of storytelling with an unique style providing an insight into two Colonial East African countries and its select inhabitants. The story centers on settlements around the Mount Kilimanzaro of the British East Africa (Kenya) and the German East Africa (Tanganyika). Pius...
"My name is Vikram Lall. I have the distinction of having been numbered one of Africa's most corrupt men, a cheat of monstrous and reptilian cunning. To me has been attributed the emptying of a large part of my troubled country's treasury in recent years. I head my country's List of Shame..." Th...
This was one of the most readable university books I ever came across. I really enjoyed the different episodes of the different times in the lives of this particular family and their involvement in all the political circumstances they have lived under. The progression from one kind of power to va...
On the back cover of my edition, there's a blurb from The Globe and Mail that calls the book "timeless." That is the most accurate single-word evaluation of The Assassin's Song.Once you've plunged into the book and read a couple of chapters, you immediately get that sense of timelessness. M. G....
This was another book I had to read for one of my courses. As an immigration narrative it came very close to home; the issues discussed, the neighbourhood described, the duality of identity experienced by the main character all seem very familiar to me.The plot is of course centred on the struggl...