Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Picador, 2015
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DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9781250109187 MWT16171161, 1250109183 16171161
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
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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