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Name: The Book of Secrets
Full title: The Book of Secrets: A Novel
Author: M. G. Vassanji
Year: 1994
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Genres/categories: Fiction, Historical fiction

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Winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize in 1994.

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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