{"id":4951,"date":"2004-10-28T13:10:59","date_gmt":"2004-10-28T17:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookdragon.si.edu\/?p=4951"},"modified":"2015-08-17T10:47:39","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T14:47:39","slug":"the-in-between-world-of-vikram-lall-by-m-g-vassanji","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/the-in-between-world-of-vikram-lall-by-m-g-vassanji\/","title":{"rendered":"The In-Between World of Vikram Lall by M.G. Vassanji [in AsianWeek]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2004\/10\/In-Between-World-of-Vikram-Lall.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-31224\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2004\/10\/In-Between-World-of-Vikram-Lall.jpg\" alt=\"In Between World of Vikram Lall\" width=\"349\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a>Calling himself &#8220;quite an ordinary man&#8221; even as he\u00a0tops his country&#8217;s List of Shame, Vikram Lall\u00a0recounts four decades of his &#8220;in-between&#8221; life in\u00a0Kenya. A third-generation African of Asian Indian\u00a0descent, he is not African enough, and certainly not\u00a0on par with the ruling whites. A horrific childhood\u00a0tragedy determines the rest of his life, leading him\u00a0eventually into hiding in faraway Canada.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/07\/asianweek-2004-10-28-new-and-notable.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">&#8220;New and Notable Books,&#8221; <em>AsianWeek<\/em>, October 28, 2004<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tidbit<\/strong>: Vassanji was a guest at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/apanews.si.edu\/2005\/10\/01\/saltaf-2005-south-asian-literary-and-theater-arts-festival\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">SALTAF\u00a02005<\/a> (South Asian Literary and Theater Arts Festival), a much-anticipated, highly-attended\u00a0annual fall event sponsored by the Smithsonian APA Program and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.netsap.org\/netsapdc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal\">NetSAP-DC<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2004<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4952\" title=\"In Between World of Vikram Lall\" src=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/07\/in-between-world-of-vikram-lall.jpg\" alt=\"In Between World of Vikram Lall\" width=\"128\" height=\"189\" \/>Calling himself &#8220;quite an ordinary man&#8221; even as he tops his country&#8217;s List of Shame, Vikram Lall recounts four decades of his &#8220;in-between&#8221; life in Kenya. A third-generation African of Asian Indian descent, he is not African enough, and certainly not on par with the ruling whites. A horrific childhood tragedy determines the rest of his life, leading him eventually into hiding in faraway Canada.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/07\/asianweek-2004-10-28-new-and-notable.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;New and Notable Books,&#8221; <em>AsianWeek<\/em>, October 28, 2004<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2004<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,287,9,6,52,531,53,6535,17,18],"tags":[3598,84,6608,58,10,11,51,25,4779,532,170],"class_list":["post-4951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adult-readers","category-african","category-canadian-asian-pacific-american","category-fiction","category-indian","category-indian-african","category-indian-american","category-repost","category-south-asian","category-south-asian-american","tag-asianweek","tag-betrayal","tag-bookdragon","tag-coming-of-age","tag-family","tag-friendship","tag-identity","tag-immigration","tag-in-between-world-of-vikram-lall","tag-m-g-vassanji","tag-sibling-rivalry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The In-Between World of Vikram Lall by M.G. 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