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The Magic of Saida

Driven by an old regret from his life as a successful doctor and family man, Kamal Punja journeys to his mother's native Africa to keep a childhood promise and confronts his unresolved mixed racial identity.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Vassanji, M. G.
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2013.
Edition:	First United States Edition.
Subjects:	Man-woman relationships > Fiction. Promises > Fiction. Tanzania > Fiction. Love stories.
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Summary:	Driven by an old regret from his life as a successful doctor and family man, Kamal Punja journeys to his mother's native Africa to keep a childhood promise and confronts his unresolved mixed racial identity.
Physical Description:	303 pages ; 25 cm
ISBN:	9780307961501 0307961508
Author Notes:	M.G. Vassanji was born in Kenya and raised in Tanzania. Before coming to Canada in 1978, he attended M.I.T., and later was writer in residence at the University of Iowa. Vassanji is the author of four acclaimed novels: The Gunny Sack (1989), which won a regional Commonwealth Prize; No New Land (1991); The Book of Secrets (1994), which won the very first Giller Prize; and Amriika (1999). He was awarded the Harbourfront Festival Prize in 1994 in recognition of his achievement in and contribution to the world of letters, and was in the same year chosen as one of twelve Canadians on MacleanÂs Honour Roll.