The In-Between World of Vikram Lall

M. G. Vassanji · 2003 CE · Novel · Modern / American · Contemporary

Vikram Lall, a Kenyan of Indian descent living in Canadian exile after being named one of Kenya's most corrupt men, sets down the story of his life from a childhood in Nakuru during the Mau Mau emergency. A Canadian writer's novel of the East African Asian position between colonizer and colonized.

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