The Assassin's Song

M. G. Vassanji

Original title: The assassin's song

first published 2007 Doubleday Canada, 2007 313 pages

In the aftermath of the brutal violence that gripped western India in 2002, Karsan Dargawalla, heir to Pirbaag -- the shrine of a mysterious, medieval sufi -- begins to tell the story of his family. His tale opens in the 1960s: young Karsan is next in line after his father to assume lordship of the shrine, but he longs to be "just ordinary." Despite his father's pleas, Karsan leaves home behind for Harvard, and, even...

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The Assassin's Song ebook · 2009 · Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · 9780307513557
The Assassin's Song edition · 2009 · Canongate Books · 9781847676153
Assassin's Song edition · 2009 · Canongate Books · 336 pages · 9781847672834
The assassin's song edition · 2007 · Doubleday Canada · 313 pages · 9780385663519
The assassin's song edition · 2007 · Alfred A. Knopf · 313 pages · 9781400042173

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