{"product_id":"the-in-between-world-of-vikram-lall","title":"The In-Between World of Vikram Lall","description":"Giller Prize-winner M.G. Vassanji's The In-Between World of Vikram Lall is  a haunting novel of corruption and regret that brings to life the complexity and  turbulence of Kenyan society in the last five decades. Rich in sensuous detail and  historical insight, this is a powerful story of passionate betrayals and political  violence, racial tension and the strictures of tradition, told in elegant, assured  prose.\r\n\r\n The novel begins in 1953, with eight-year-old Vikram Lall a witness to the  celebrations around the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, just as the Mau Mau guerilla  war for independence from Britain begins to gain strength. In a land torn apart by  idealism, doubt, political upheaval and terrible acts of violence, Vic and his sister  Deepa must find their place among a new generation. Neither colonists nor African,  neither white nor black, the Indian brother and sister find themselves somewhere  in between in their band of playmates: Bill and Annie, British children, and Njoroge,  an African boy. These are the relationships that will shape the rest of their lives.\r\n\r\n We follow Vikram through the changes in East African society, the immense promise  of the fifties and sixties. But when that hope is betrayed by the corruption and  violence of the following decades, Vic is drawn into the Kenyatta government's orbit  of graft and power-broking. Njoroge, his childhood friend, can abandon neither the  idealism of his youth nor his love for Vic's sister Deepa. But neither the idealism  of the one nor the passive cynicism of the other can avert the tragedies that await  them.\r\n\r\n The In-Between  World of Vikram Lall is a profound and careful examination of one man's search for  his place in the world, with themes that have run through Vassanji's  work: the nature of community in a volatile society, the relations between  colony and colonizer, and the inescapable presence of the past. It is also, finally,  a deeply personal book speaking to the people who are in the in-between.","brand":"M.G. Vassanji","offers":[{"title":"Doubleday Canada \/ 14 Sep 2004 \/ B54","offer_id":50017774469461,"sku":"9780385659918","price":3.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0501\/4188\/8668\/files\/9780385659918.webp?v=1734134646","url":"https:\/\/www.bookworld.ie\/products\/the-in-between-world-of-vikram-lall","provider":"Book World Ireland","version":"1.0","type":"link"}