A Place Within

A Place Within
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Publisher : Doubleday Canada
Total Pages : 466
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ISBN-10 : 9780307371775
ISBN-13 : 0307371778
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Book Synopsis A Place Within by : M.G. Vassanji

Download or read book A Place Within written by M.G. Vassanji and published by Doubleday Canada. This book was released on 2009-03-18 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Globe and Mail Best Book The inimitable M.G. Vassanji turns his eye to India, the homeland of his ancestors, in this powerfully moving tale of family and country. Part travelogue, part history, A Place Within is M.G. Vassanji’s intelligent and beautifully written journey to explore where he belongs. It would take many lifetimes, it was said to me during my first visit, to see all of India. The desperation must have shown on my face to absorb and digest all I possibly could. This was not something I had articulated or resolved; and yet I recall an anxiety as I travelled the length and breadth of the country, senses raw to every new experience, that even in the distraction of a blink I might miss something profoundly significant. I was not born in India, nor were my parents; that might explain much in my expectation of that visit. Yet how many people go to the homeland of their grandparents with such a heartload of expectation and momentousness; such a desire to find themselves in everything they see? Is it only India that clings thus, to those who’ve forsaken it; is this why Indians in a foreign land seem always so desperate to seek each other out? What was India to me?


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