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Country Canada Pages 336 pp OCLC 122707173 | 3.7/5 Goodreads Publication date August 21, 2007 Originally published 21 August 2007 Genre Literary fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Publisher Doubleday in Canada
Knopf in United States
Penguin in India ISBN 978-0-385-66351-9 (Doubleday)
ISBN 978-1-4000-4217-3 (Knopf) Nominations Scotiabank Giller Prize, Governor General's Award for English-language fiction Similar M G Vassanji books, Literary fiction books, Other books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
M g vassanji the assassin s song bookbits author interview
The Assassin's Song is a novel by M. G. Vassanji, published in 2007 by Doubleday Canada. It is the story of a young Indian boy (Karsan Dargawalla) whose dream is to escape his family's religious legacy. He wants to be ordinary: to go to school, play cricket, talk to girls, and make his own choices. He tries to escape by traveling to the United States for college (at Harvard) and eventually settling in Canada (in B.C.). The novel also contains the in-depth narrative of his ancient forebear.
It was shortlisted for the Giller Prize, the Governor General's Award, and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.
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