Awards

• Short-listed for Governor General's Literary Award - Nonfiction 2009
• Winner of Governor General's Literary Awards (Nonfiction) 2009

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Strikingly written ...beautifully observed, filled with myths, stories, legends, history, journal entries, and family narratives. It is an expertly stitched collage and, as much as it reveals about India, it is a great portrait of Vassanji himself.... Wonderful. <br>-- The Globe and Mail <br><br> Vassanji brings a gifted storyteller's eye to A Place Within, drawing entertainingly on extensive journals he kept on his Indian excursions.... He captures both the spiritual and the uglier sides of India, all the raw fundamentals of life there, but he always leads with what he sees as India's 'essential quality of tolerance and flexibility, ' and the overwhelming pull of ancestry. <br>-- Vancouver Sun <br><br> A striking and rich melange of impression and experience, of the enchantments and disappointments of such an arduous and long-awaited pilgrimage. <br>-- London Free Press <br><br> A lovely, deeply personal book -- one entirely worthy of one of Canada's top-shelf talents. <br>-- Edmonton Journal <br><br><br> From the Hardcover edition.

Strikingly written ...beautifully observed, filled with myths, stories, legends, history, journal entries, and family narratives. It is an expertly stitched collage and, as much as it reveals about India, it is a great portrait of Vassanji himself.... Wonderful. -- The Globe and Mail Vassanji brings a gifted storyteller's eye to A Place Within, drawing entertainingly on extensive journals he kept on his Indian excursions.... He captures both the spiritual and the uglier sides of India, all the raw fundamentals of life there, but he always leads with what he sees as India's 'essential quality of tolerance and flexibility, ' and the overwhelming pull of ancestry. -- Vancouver Sun A striking and rich melange of impression and experience, of the enchantments and disappointments of such an arduous and long-awaited pilgrimage. -- London Free Press A lovely, deeply personal book -- one entirely worthy of one of Canada's top-shelf talents. -- Edmonton Journal From the Hardcover edition.

Strikingly written ...beautifully observed, filled with myths, stories, legends, history, journal entries, and family narratives. It is an expertly stitched collage and, as much as it reveals about India, it is a great portrait of Vassanji himself.... Wonderful. -- The Globe and Mail Vassanji brings a gifted storyteller's eye to A Place Within, drawing entertainingly on extensive journals he kept on his Indian excursions.... He captures both the spiritual and the uglier sides of India, all the raw fundamentals of life there, but he always leads with what he sees as India's 'essential quality of tolerance and flexibility, ' and the overwhelming pull of ancestry. -- Vancouver Sun A striking and rich melange of impression and experience, of the enchantments and disappointments of such an arduous and long-awaited pilgrimage. -- London Free Press A lovely, deeply personal book -- one entirely worthy of one of Canada's top-shelf talents. -- Edmonton Journal From the Hardcover edition.

Author Information

M.G. VASSANJI won the Giller Prize for The Book of Secrets and The In-Between World of Vikram Lall, and the Governor General's Literary Award for Non-Fiction for A Place Within: Rediscovering India. His novel The Assassin's Song was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction. Most recently, his novel Nostalgia was a finalist in Canada Reads 2017.

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