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The in-between world of Vikram Lall

In 1953 Kenya the lives of a group of friends--two children of Indian descent, an African boy, and two young British siblings--are transformed by the violence of the Mau Mau uprising against British rule and a guerrilla raid.

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  • "In 1953 Kenya, a diverse group of children meet and become friends, using their imaginations to escape the conflict around them."
  • "An East Indian and his sister living in Kenya spend their lives caught between the English rulers and the African locals who seek independence. Giller Prize Winner 2003."
  • "In 1953 Kenya the lives of a group of friends--two children of Indian descent, an African boy, and two young British siblings--are transformed by the violence of the Mau Mau uprising against British rule and a guerrilla raid."@en
  • "In 1953 Kenya the lives of a group of friends--two children of Indian descent, an African boy, and two young British siblings--are transformed by the violence of the Mau Mau uprising against British rule and a guerrilla raid."
  • "Een Keniaanse man van Indiase afkomst, die in een groot corruptieschandaal is verwikkeld, houdt zich schuil in Canada en overpeinst daar zijn leven."
  • "Vikram Lall is an Indian man living on the shores of Lake Ontario, retelling his life story from 1953, when he and his family lived in colonial Kenya, to now. He describes how he and his sister Deepa tried to find their place in a violent and changing world, and then how he later found himself drawn into an orbit of corruption after the promise of the 1960's. While contemplating historical events that shaped him, his choices, and the tragedies that awaited him, he also recalls the friendships of his and Deepa's youth, with both British and African children, that would haunt them all their lives."@en
  • "Vikram Lall comes of age in 1950s Kenya, at the same time that the colony is struggling towards independence. Against the unsettling backdrop of Mau Mau violence, Vic and his sister Deepa, the grandchildren of an Indian railroad worker, search for their place in a world sharply divided between Kenyans and the British. We follow Vic from a changing Africa in the fifties, to the hope of the sixties, and through the corruption and fear of the seventies and eighties. Hauntingly told in the voice of the now exiled Vic, The In-Between World of Vikram Lall is an acute and bittersweet novel of identity and family, of lost love and abiding friendship, and of the insidious legacy of the British Empire. From the Trade Paperback edition."

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  • "Political fiction"@en
  • "Political fiction"
  • "History"@en
  • "History"
  • "French language materials"
  • "Psychological fiction"@en
  • "General fiction"
  • "Psychological fiction"
  • "Historical fiction"@en
  • "Electronic books"
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  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Canadian fiction"
  • "Roman canadien"

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  • "The in-between world of Vikram Lall"@en
  • "The in-between world of Vikram Lall"
  • "De tussenwereld van Vikram Lall"
  • "The In-between world of Vikram Lall"@en
  • "The in-between world of Vikram Lall : a novel"@en
  • "The in-between world of Vikram Lall : a novel"
  • "El mundo incierto de Vikram Lall"@es
  • "In-Between world of Vikram Lall"
  • "La troublante histoire de Vikram Lall"
  • "Troublante histoire de Vikram Lall"
  • "La Patria aliena d'en Vikram Lall"
  • "The in-between world of Vikram Lall : [a novel]"
  • "El Mundo incierto de Vikram Lall"
  • "Il mondo sospeso di Vikram Lall"@it
  • "Il mondo sospeso di Vikram Lall"
  • "The in-between world of Vikram Lall a novel"
  • "La pàtria aliena d'en Vikram Lall"

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