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Book, 1997
Current format, Book, 1997, Trade pbk. ed, No Longer Available.
Book, 1997
Current format, Book, 1997, Trade pbk. ed, No Longer Available. Offered in 0 more formats
In 1988, a retired schoolteacher named Pius Fernandes receives an old diary found in the back room of an East African shop. Written in 1913 by a British colonial administrator, the diary captivates Fernandes, who begins to research the coded history he encounters in its terse, laconic entries. What he uncovers is a story of forbidden liaisons and simmering vengeances, family secrets and cultural exiles--a story that leads him on an investigative journey through his own past and Africa's.
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