Title: The book of secrets : a novel /
Authors: Vassanji, M. G.
Publisher: Picador USA,
Year: 1997
Subjects: Asians Africa, East History Fiction.; Africa, East Fiction
Abstract: The diary of a British colonial administrator in East Africa in the 1910s. He is Sir Alfred Corbin who has an affair with his Indian housekeeper. She marries a shopkeeper and gives birth to a fair boy, Ali, later reunited with Corbin in Britain. The diary is recounted by an Indian teacher of our day who gives his own interpretation of Corbin's diary.