A two-time winner of the Giller Prize, M. G. Vassanji pens richly evocative fiction of the highest order. The Assassin’s Song is a stunning composition of East and West, fathers and sons, and the inevitability of human life.

Karsan Dargawalla is supposed to succeed his father as avatar of a 13th-century Sufi shrine, but he dreams of another life. Sending a hopeful application to Harvard, Karsan is accepted against any real expectation—and he embarks on this path, even if it means turning his back to his father’s wishes.
Karsan thereafter follows the course of Western education, career, and family. But his heritage—his “Indianness”—begins to reassert itself, and Karsan finds he must return to his homeland to reconnect the fractured pieces of his identity.

Vassanji’s highly acclaimed novel is that rare piece of fiction that lingers long in readers’ thoughts.
Published by: Recorded Books, Inc.