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The Assassin's Song

M. G. Vassanji

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#4726 of 8,085 books · #722 in Historical Fiction

Shortlisted for the Giller Prize (2007).

In the aftermath of the brutal violence that gripped western India in 2002, Karsan Dargawalla, heir to Pirbaag -- the shrine of a mysterious, medieval sufi -- begins to tell the story of his family. His tale opens in the 1960s: young Karsan is next in line after his father to assume lordship of the shrine, but he longs to be "just ordinary." Despite his father's pleas, Karsan leaves home behind for Harvard, and, eventually, marriage and a career. Not until tragedy strikes, both in Karsan's adopted home in Canada and in Pirbaag, is he drawn back across thirty years of separation and silence to discover what, if anything, is left for him in India.

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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
ISBN-13
9780307513557
Topics
Family legacy and religious heritageIdentity and belongingCommunal violence in India

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