The Magic of Saida takes us back to the East Africa of M.G. Vassanji’s earlier work (and Giller wins), after a departure to India with A Place Within: Rediscovering India and his last novel, The Assassin’s Song.
For Vassanji, though, India is never a departure, or rather, being of Indian descent is…
Camilla Gibb
Camilla Gibb is the author of four novels, most recently, The Beauty of Humanity Movement (Doubleday, 2010).