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The In-Between World of Vikram Lall
The In-Between World of Vikram Lall is a novel by M. G. Vassanji, published in 2003 by Doubleday Canada. The novel won the Scotiabank Giller Prize that year and narrates a story of Vikram Lall in the colonial and post-colonial Kenya. The title for the novel also inspired the title for Elizabeth Nunez's novel "Anna In-Between", published in 2009.
Plot.
Vikram Lall is an adult living in exile in Canada and the novel plots
Vassanji won the inaugural Giller Prize in 1994 for "The Book of Secrets". That year, he won the Harbourfront Festival Prize in recognition of his "achievement in and contribution to the world of letters." Hee was also one of twelve Canadians chosen for Maclean's Magazine's Honour Roll.
In 1996 he was a Fellow of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study in Shimla, India.
He again won the Giller Prize in 2003 for "The In-Between World of Vikram Lall", the first writer