The Book of Secrets
Publisher: Brand: Picador; Picador
Published: Dec 15, 1996
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780312150686
Description: 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.