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Nostalgia by M.G. Vassanji6/24/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The search for self runs through not just his fiction - which made him the first two-time winner of Canada's Giller Prize - but also such works as the hesitant, moving 2008 travelogue, A Place Within: Rediscovering India, about his attempts to understand the complexities of his ancestral land. ![]() Perhaps this is unsurprising given his own multi-cultural background: descended from Gujarat's Khoja community, he grew up in Kenya and Tanzania, went to the US to study at age 20, and has lived in Canada since 1978. A theme running through Vassanji's work - starting with the 1989 novel, The Gunny Sack - is the imposition of the past on the present, and how people are shaped by their histories even as they try to evade them. Vassanji's writing will know that these lines, from his latest novel, Nostalgia, could easily have come from any of his earlier narratives. But sometimes it does? Reminders of our discarded lives can not yet be completely blocked?"Īnyone familiar with M.G. "We leap from one life into another, be it imperfectly, and hope? that the past does not catch up with us. ![]()
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