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Title	:	The Magic of Saida
Author	:	M.G. Vassanji
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 320 pages
Published	:	September 25th 2012 by Doubleday Canada (first published January 1st 2012)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. Africa. Historical. Historical Fiction. Canada. Literary Fiction. Eastern Africa. Tanzania

The Magic of Saida

M.G. Vassanji

Hardcover | Pages: 320 pages

Rating: 3.42 | 518 Users | 82 Reviews

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The Magic of Saida tells the haunting story of Kamal, a successful Canadian doctor who, in middle age and after decades in North America, decides to return to his homeland of East Africa to find his childhood sweetheart, Saida. Kamal's journey is motivated by a combination of guilt, hope, and the desire to unravel the mysteries of his childhood--mysteries compounded by the fact that Kamal is the son of an absent Indian father from a well-to-do family and a Swahili African mother of slave ancestry. Through a series of flashbacks, we watch Kamal's early years in the ancient coastal town of Kilwa, where he grows up in a world of poverty but also of poetry, sustained by his friendship with the magical Saida.

This world abruptly ends when Kamal is sent away by his mother to live with his father's family in the city. There, the academically gifted boy grows up as a "dark Indian," eventually going to university and departing for Canada. Left behind to her traditional fate is Saida, now a beautiful young woman. Decades later, Kamal's guilt pulls him back to Kilwa . . . where he discovers what happened to Saida during a harrowing night of sinister rites. This complex, revelatory, sweeping and shocking book, is a towering testament to the magical literary powers of M.G. Vassanji.

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ISBN:	0385667140 (ISBN13: 9780385667142)
Edition Language:	English

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Ratings: 3.42 From 518 Users | 82 Reviews

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Objectively I understand the value of this book. Objectively it's interesting. It's very obviously about place and race and ancestry and where a person is from/where their home is. It made me think about several things I haven't before. For example, the people who were half-Asian, half-African, living in Africa over the 20th centruy. It's also a book about family and and belief systems and values survival and betrayal.Honestly, I think it's just a book about too many things. It's an interesting

I had no idea I'd be getting a bit of history of Tanzania - a bonus to what is otherwise a fine tale of opportunity and regret individuals face when they leave their homeland and cultural security behind for a new life elsewhere.I'm a bit of a sucker when it comes to reflections that cover one's childhood (with mysteries and enthusiasm for all that life could be) all the way through to that individual as elderly (with regrets, humbleness at what life has brought, and the ability to reflect on

This was a 3.5 read for me. The Magic of Saida is the story of Kamal Punja, a successful doctor from Edmonton, Canada, returning to his birthplace a small coastal town called Kilwa, part of what is now known as Tanzania to search for his childhood sweetheart, Saida. What started out as story with a theme of looking for a lost love morphs into a fully complex storyline that examines identity, abandonment, love, hope, and dislocation wrapped up with magic realism elements and infused with history

Well, this was an agonizingly long journey that left me feeling unfulfilled and rather angry. The story continuously digresses in and out between three different timelines in Kamal's singular life. This led for some initial confusion before a rhythm began to emerge. And though I often adore stories that are not necessarily happy in nature, this one obliterated hope entirely. Without a doubt, this story is laced in history, which I absolutely loved. The disparity that is shown between Africans

This is a wonderful story which loops back and forth from present-day Tanzania to Tanzania right after independence, to the Maji Maji rebellion and colonialism, all through the story of Kamal, and African/Indian Swahili speaking doctor who was born in Kilwa and emigrated to Canada. He returns to Kilwa looking for his childhood friend, Saida. As the book loops back and forth, through Kamal's growing up and going through identity issues between the African community and the Indian community,

At first, as the story weaves in and out through the lives and history of the characters and town involved, I feel it took me a while to make my way through. However, as I came the end, I just couldn't close the book to put it down and I found myself immediately returning to the beginning of the book to re-read those early parts, to recapture the significance and the feeling of what I had just enjoyed.

A magical novel of a quest for homecoming to East Africa. Vassanji seamlessly weaves themes of family,immigration,religion, politics, history,slavery,colonization,love,spirituality,and identity over the life cycle. Vassanji is a master, mystical storyteller whose prose seems to be talking directly to you-the reader. A must read!!