The In-Between World of Vikram Lall (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: M. G. Vassanji
- First Published: 2003
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: 1950-2004
- Setting: Kenya, Tanzania, and Canada
- Principal Characters: Vikram Lall, Deepa, Njoroge, William, Sheila Lall, Mr. Lall, Mahesh, Seema, Joseph
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Family or family life, Africa or Africans, Politics, Colonialism, Twentieth century, Exile or expatriates, Interracial relationships, Betrayal, Ethnic relations, Canada or Canadians, India or East Indian people, Corruption
- Locales: Canada, Kenya, TanzaniaCanada
In an introductory note, M. G. Vassanji establishes that the individual named in the title, The In-Between World of Vikram Lall, will serve as the first-person narrator; Lall's disclosures about his past cast doubts on his reliability from the outset. Lall openly admits that he has been called one of the most corrupt men in Africa. Now secluded in a remote Canadian village, he feels compelled to tell his story.
Lall begins by describing his childhood as a third-generation East Indian in Kenya. He then relates how, as a young man, he rose in the bureaucracy once Kenya...
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