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Informationen zum Autor M.G. Vassanji is the author of five acclaimed novels: The Gunny Sack ! which won a regional Commonwealth Writers' Prize; No New Land ; The Book of Secrets ! which won the very first Giller Prize; Amiriika ; and The In-Between World of Vikram Lall ! which also received the giller Prize. He lives in Toronto with his wife and two sons. Klappentext 'It treads that line between the intimate and the epic, and builds to a powerful, heartbreaking, redemptive ending.' Tahmima Anam, Guardian In the aftermath of the violence that gripped western India in 2002, Karsan Dargawalla, heir to the shrine of a mysterious medieval sufi, begins to tell the story of his family and the now destroyed shrine. After a bitter quarrel with his father that led him to abdicate his birthright, Karsan made a new life for himself in suburban Canada. But when tragedy strikes, he is drawn back home to see if anything is left for him . . . 'Vassanji writes with great charm and old-fashioned wisdom.' Kate Saunders, The Times 'Masterful . . . M.G. Vassanji may have been compared to Salman Rushdie by virtue of his subject matter but his clean, detached writing style is much more penetrable.' Metro ' The Assassin's Song is both particular and universal, which is one of the marks of great literature. Historical novel, bildungsroman and terrorist thriller all rolled into one.' Giles Foden, Guardian The magnificent new novel from the two-time prize-winning author of The In-Between World of Vikram Lall Zusammenfassung The magnificent new novel from the two-time prize-winning author of The In-Between World of Vikram Lall
