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.
Electrolytes and resources:
It is a variety of study subjects in the school of life. It has no time or place, no chapter or book.
It is available to every person, and every day it contains more than one exam, and its materials have not been subjected to planning or preparation, and it has no curriculum.
It comes and goes, disappears and settles, changes and is renewed... This is how its materials are as I experienced them.
Resources are study materials imposed by life experience and written by life experience, and life remains the mother of schools.
