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Title Statement | The assassin's song / M.G. Vassanji. |
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Author | Vassanji, M. G |
Publication | [Toronto]: Doubleday Canada, c2007. |
Extent of Item | 313, [12] p. |
ISBN | 038566351X 9780385663519 |
Other Number | 1702688 |
Bibliography | Includes bibliographical references (p. [319-320]). |
Summary | A young man destined to succeed his father as avatar of Pirbaag, a 13th-century Sufi shrine, rejects his spiritual inheritance in order to study at Harvard and live an ordinary life. Thirty years later, when his father dies, he returns to India to discover what he has left behind. |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Shrines--Fiction--India |
Sufism--Fiction | |
Religious life--Fiction | |
Fathers--Fiction--Death | |
Family--Fiction | |
By Location | India--Fiction--History |
By Genre | Domestic fiction |
Historical fiction |