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The Gunny Sack

(1989)
A novel by

 
 
Author's first book, and winner of the Commonwealth Regional Prize (Africa) for Best First Novel; a title from the publisher's African Writers Series

A Tanzanian Asian and great grandson of an African slave is bequeathed by his mystical grandaunt a gunny sack containing mementos which fascinated him as a child, and which tell the stories of characters whose experiences mirror four generations worth of Asian participation in East African life.


Genre: Literary Fiction

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