Buy this book on-line Vassanji, M.G : The Assassin's SongDoubleday Canada, Toronto, 2007 ISBN 9780385663519
In the aftermath of the brutal violence that gripped western India in 2002, Karsan Dargawalla, heir to Pirbaag--the shrine of a mysterious, medieval sufi--begins to tell the story of his family and the shrine now destroyed. His tale opens in the 1960s: young Karsan is next in line after his father to assume lordship of the Shrine of the Wanderer, and take his place as a representative of God to the multitudes who come there. But he longs to be "just ordinary"--to play cricket and be part of the exciting world he reads about in the stacks of newspapers a truck driver brings him from all across India. And when, to his utter amazement, he is accepted at Harvard, he can't resist the opportunity to go finally "into the beating heart of the world." Even as he succeeds in his "ordinary" life--marrying and having a son (his own "child-god"), becoming a professor in suburban British Columbia--his heritage haunts him in unexpected ways. After tragedy strikes, both in Canada and in Pirbaag, he is drawn back across thirty years of separation and silence to discover what, if anything, is left for him in India.A story of grand historical sweep and intricate personal drama, a stunning evocation of the physical and emotional landscape of a man caught between the ancient and the modern, between legacy and discovery, between the most daunting filial obligation and the most undeniable personal yearning-- a heartbreaking ballad of a life irrevocably changed.352p.. Book. Book Condition: New. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Fine Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Vassanji, M.G : The Assassin's Song. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including libri rari, livres rares, rare books, libri antichi and antiquarian books. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |