Description
A life lived in the margins becomes the subject of this sweeping, intimate novel, as Vikram Lall—now an adult in exile in Canada—looks back on his teenage years in Kenya. Moving through the decades of the 1950s, 60s, 70s, and 80s, his memories trace not only personal coming-of-age but also the country’s shifting political landscape and the uneasy negotiations of identity that accompany it. Caught between cultures, languages, and loyalties, Vikram is “in-between” everything and everyone: Indian by birth and upbringing, yet never fully at home in the categories others try to impose. With M.G. Vassanji’s lyrical, character-driven storytelling, the novel explores belonging, displacement, and the quiet costs of history—how a person can be both witness to change and shaped by it.
Available Editions
paperback
Vintage
Published Nov 8, 2005
384 pages
ISBN: 9781400076567
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Details
First Published
2003
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The In-Between World of Vikram Lall by M.G. Vassanji.