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Amriika

M. G Vassanji

1999312 pagesabout 5–7 hours
1999
first published
  • 1999McClelland & Stewart · 412 pages · ENGISBN 9780771087233
  • 2000M&S · 412 pages · ENGISBN 9780771087257
  • 2012McClelland & Stewart · ENGISBN 9781299132023
  • 2000South Asia Books · 312 pagesISBN 9788172233938

Amriika is a novel of betrayal, disillusionment, and discovery set in America during three highly charged decades in the nation's history. In the late sixties, Ramji, a student from Dar es Salaam, East Africa, arrives in an America far different from the one he dreamed about, one caught up in anti-war demonstrations, revolutionary lifestyles, and spiritual quests. As Ramji finds himself pulled by the tumultuous currents of those troubled times, he is swept up in events whose consequences will haunt him for years to come. Decades later in a changed America, having recently left a marriage and a suburban existence, an older Ramji, passionately in love, finds himself drawn into a set of circumstances which hold terrifying reminders of the past and its unanswered questions.

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