The In-Between World of Vikram LallVikram Lall comes of age in 1950s Kenya, at the same time that the colony is struggling towards independence. Against the unsettling backdrop of Mau Mau violence, Vic and his sister Deepa, the grandchildren of an Indian railroad worker, search for their place in a world sharply divided between Kenyans and the British. We follow Vic from a changing Africa in the fifties, to the hope of the sixties, and through the corruption and fear of the seventies and eighties. Hauntingly told in the voice of the now exiled Vic, The In-Between World of Vikram Lall is an acute and bittersweet novel of identity and family, of lost love and abiding friendship, and of the insidious legacy of the British Empire. |
Contents
Section 18 | 200 |
Section 19 | 211 |
Section 20 | 218 |
Section 21 | 233 |
Section 22 | 246 |
Section 23 | 252 |
Section 24 | 262 |
Section 25 | 273 |
Section 9 | 103 |
Section 10 | 115 |
Section 11 | 128 |
Section 12 | 141 |
Section 13 | 153 |
Section 14 | 164 |
Section 15 | 172 |
Section 16 | 181 |
Section 17 | 192 |
Section 26 | 284 |
Section 27 | 293 |
Section 28 | 308 |
Section 29 | 320 |
Section 30 | 330 |
Section 31 | 343 |
Section 32 | 353 |
Section 33 | 371 |
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