2003, ISBN: 9781852530747

Trailblazer Publications. Paperback. Used; Good. **Simply Brit** Shipped with Premium postal service within 24 hours from the UK with impressive delivery time. We have dispatched from o… More...

Trailblazer Publications. Paperback. Used; Good. **Simply Brit** Shipped with Premium postal service within 24 hours from the UK with impressive delivery time. We have dispatched from our book depository; items of good condition to over ten million satisfied customers worldwide. We are committed to providing you with reliable and efficient service at all times. 03/07/2003, Trailblazer Publications, Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book From the author of the acclaimed The Assassin's Song, a story of a family's legacy and history in changing East Africa Far away from the coastal Dar es Salaam of his childhood, Salim Juma inherits an ancient gunny sack which belonged to his mystical great-aunt Ji Bai. Inside the sack he discovers the past. Its relics and artefacts bring with them the lives, loves and betrayals of Salim's Indian great-grandfather, Dhanji Govindji, and his extensive family, releasing in tantalizing pieces the dark history of this immigrant family in a changing, modernizing East Africa. Set in what are now the countries of Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda, The Gunny Sack beautifully and seamlessly interweaves the intimate details of family life and the decisive public events that shaped nearly a century of tumultuous history in a place where a dozen cultures met and mingled. Raw and powerful, full of pathos and humour, M.G. Vassanji's debut novel, first published in 1991, marked the arrival of one of the finest storytellers in the English language., 1992. Sedimentary Geology 78; pp. 49-57, illustr. Orig. extract, stapled., Dar es Salaam University Press, 1993-08-01. Paperback. Good., Dar es Salaam University Press, 1993-08-01, Southampton, UK: Asford Press, 1989 reissue of c1964 ed. 128pp. illus. paperback: near Fine [some tiny foxed spots top edge; else a crisp copy] A nice reissue in the Ashford Animal Classics series of Kinlochs memoir of taking a mongoose, Pipa, from a Dar-es-Salaam market into his family home. Kinloch was Tanzanias Chief Game Warden at the time. Gavin Maxwell, famous for his animal classic "Ring of Bright Water," called this story "As delightful and understanding a portrait of an animal as I have read; an enchanting animal and an enchanting book." Gerald Durrell suggests that the mongoose could have written the book himself, merely having the human ghostwrite it., Southampton, UK: Asford Press<