Retired teacher Pius Fernandez receives from one of his students an old notebook found in the back room of a shop in East Africa. It turns out to be the diary of a British officer who lived seven decades ago in the small town of Kikono. The diary captivates the teacher, and he tries to recreate the world in it, and breathe life into the souls trapped there, discovering a dark, burning secret, the secret of a simple man named “Pippa” whose life, after his marriage to “Mariamo,” became painfully linked to the life of the English officer. As Fernandez follows the diary's trail, he himself eventually becomes one of the tales of the Book of Secrets.
In this novel, which won the Giller Prize in its first edition, in 1994, Vasanji writes an influential work rich in questions, about a very rich and complex world, vibrant with colorful images, against the backdrop of great historical changes.
In a place of gratitude
Biography of the object and place
The book is an extrapolation of the biography of the late Sheikh Zayed Al Nahyan, may God have mercy on him, through various positions during which I tried to dwell on the biography through two speeches, the narrative speech, in which I dealt with chapters from the biography of Sheikh Zayed, which formed important joints in the process of construction and giving that he led, through a narrative narrative. He traced the biography from childhood and early upbringing, which played an important role in the personality of Sheikh Zayed, consolidating his knowledge and shaping his wisdom and humanitarian visions.
Imagination played an important role in educating those stages of time, through the historical clues indicated by his biography. This was in the chapter (The Knight of Wisdom and the Desert), where I spoke in the pre-biography about the relationship of the being with his existence, his self, and his relationship with the place, through mystical positions that he responds to in the stages of his life.
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A shrine of gratitude, where chapters from the biography of the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan
- (In the position of narration) through the following time stages
