Immigrating from India to Dar es Salaam in the early 1950s, Fernandes teaches at a boys' school. Eventually, he is forced to also teach at the inferior girls school where he becomes infatuated with a teenager named Rita. Ali, now a successful married man in his thirties, also falls in love with teenage Rita.
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This complex novel is at once a story of the British Empire in Africa and a very postmodern meditation on the allures and pitfalls of narrative.
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Apr 15, 1974 · In this comprehensive and practical guide, the secrets of the ancient science of Tantra become available to a contemporary audience for the first time.
Mar 6, 2024 · Through Pius Fernandes's journey, the novel explores the intricacies of identity, the power of memory, and the enduring quest for truth.
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 ...
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A retired schoolteacher is given the diary in the 1980's and he sets out on a personal quest to ferret out the secrets that are exposed by this diary. Vassenji ...
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This exciting graphic novel presents a series of puzzling mystical Jewish stories weaving together a daring adventure tale, following siblings Rose and Ben as ...
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Feb 19, 1996 · The tale begins in 1988, when Pius Fernandes, a retired schoolteacher of Indian birth, is handed an old diary by a former student. In it he ...
The “Book of Secrets” represents the stolen diary of a British colonial administrator, Sir Alfred Corbin, who arrived in Mombasa in 1913.
