What You Are
Short Stories
A finely crafted collection of short fiction that explores the tensions between remembering past homes and belonging in new ones, from M.G. Vassanji, two-time Scotiabank Giller Prize winner and winner of the Governor General's Literary Award.
Weaving between wistful memories of youthful ambition and the compromises and comforts of age, travelling between the streets of Dar es Salaam and Toronto, the characters in these stories must negotiate distance--between here and there; between lives imagined and lives lived; between expectation and disappointment; between inclusion and exclusion.
Throughout, Vassanji engages passionately with the intellectual and political questions that inspire him as a writer and a citizen, while always matching the energy of his ideas with the empathy and emotional depth he invests in…
$21.00
May 17, 2022
M.G. Vassanji is the author of ten novels, three collections of short stories, a travel memoir about India, a memoir of East Africa, and a biography of Mordecai Richler. He is twice winner of the Giller Prize (1994, 2003) for best work of fiction in Canada; the Governor General's Prize (2009) for best work of nonfiction; the Harbourfront Festival Prize; the Commonwealth First Book Prize (Africa, 1990); and the Bressani Prize. The Assassin's Song was shortlisted for the Giller Prize, the Governor General’s Prize, the Writers Trust Award, and India's Crossword Prize. Nostalgia, his dystopian novel, was a finalist for CBC's Canada Reads. His work has been translated into Arabic, Dutch, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Latvian, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish,…
Everything There Is
M.G. Vassanji
Nowhere, Exactly
M.G. Vassanji
What You Are
M.G. Vassanji
A Delhi Obsession
M.G. Vassanji
Nostalgia
M.G. Vassanji
And Home Was Kariakoo
M.G. Vassanji
The Magic of Saida
M.G. Vassanji
The Assassin's Song
M. G. Vassanji
A Place Within
M.G. Vassanji
When She Was Queen
M.G. Vassanji
The Gunny Sack
M.G. Vassanji
The In-Between World of Vikram Lall
M.G. Vassanji
Uhuru Street
M.G. Vassanji