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*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 WRITERS' TRUST BALSILLIE PRIZE FOR PUBLIC POLICY *LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 J. W. DAFOE BOOK PRIZE From one of Canada's most celebrated writers, two-time Giller Prize winner M.G. Vassanji, comes a thoughtful meditation on what it means to belong in the world. Home is...

Two-time Giller Prize winner M.G. Vassanji returns with a powerful new novel about grief and second chances, tradition and rebellion, set in vibrant present-day Delhi. Munir Khan, a recent widower from Toronto, on a whim decides to visit Delhi, the city of his forbears. Born in Kenya, he has...

From two-time Giller Prize winner M.G. Vassanji, one of Canada’s finest and most celebrated writers, comes a brilliant new novel that vividly examines the seemingly incongruous worlds of science, religion and desire. Nurul Islam is a world-renowned physicist, professor at Imperial College...

In the aftermath of the brutal violence that gripped western India in 2002, Karsan Dargawalla, heir to Pirbaag—the shrine of a medieval sufi—begins to tell the story of his family and the shrine now destroyed. His tale opens in the 1960s: young Karsan is next in line after his father to assume lordship of the Shrine of the Wanderer, and take his place as a representative of God. But he longs to be “just ordinary”—to play cricket and be part of the world he reads about in the newspapers. And when, to his amazement, he is accepted at Harvard, he can’t resist the opportunity.

From two-time Giller Prize winner M.G. Vassanji comes a brilliant new novel that bends history, myth and fantasy to cast an eye on how empires are built, and how they collapse. When a light appears in the sky above a dying empire, the world below begins to change . . . It's the fading years of...