The Book of Secrets
A Novel
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ISBN10: 0312150687
ISBN13: 9780312150686
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360 Pages
$23.00
CA$24.99
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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Praise for The Book of Secrets
"Rich . . . wonderful . . . entertaining . . . a celebration of storytelling."—David Willis McCullough, The New York Times Book Review
"A love affair with the past . . . [an] exquisite, tender, and possibly great novel."—The New Yorker
"Well-written, mulit-layered, and teasingly inconclusive . . . Offers a view of an area seldom treated in fiction.—The Atlantic Monthly
