{"product_id":"no-new-land-isbn-9780771087226","title":"No New Land","description":"\u003cp\u003e     Nurdin Lalani and his family, Asian immigrants from Africa, have come to the Toronto suburb of Don Mills only to find that the old world and its values pursue them. A genial orderly at a downtown hospital, he has been accused of sexually assaulting a girl. Although he is innocent, traditional propriety prompts him to question the purity of his own thoughts. Ultimately, his friendship with the enlightened Sushila offers him an alluring freedom from a past that haunts him, a marriage that has become routine, and from the trials of coping with teenage children. Introducing us to a cast of vividly drawn characters within this immigrant community, Vassanji is a keen observer of lives caught between one world and another.\u003c\/p\u003e\"A novel of considerable charm and intelligence, informed by a delightful sense of irony.\" —Mordecai Richler \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Vassanji probes beneath the surface to create a compelling and poignant portrait of human displacement.\" —\u003ci\u003eOttawa Citizen\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"It is part of Vassanji's great talent to demonstrate that the minor changes—unexpected love, sex, accusations—in the life of a very modest man are, in fact, transformations of history.\" —\u003ci\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Vassanji, in charting a tiny part of the Canadian reality, offers up certain truths, thought-provoking, disturbing, but ultimately, and in a small way, hopeful.\" —\u003ci\u003eSaturday Night\u003c\/i\u003eM.G. VASSANJI won the Giller Prize for \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Secrets\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe In-Between World of Vikram Lall\u003c\/i\u003e, and the Governor General's Literary Award for Non-Fiction for \u003ci\u003eA Place Within: Rediscovering India\u003c\/i\u003e. His novel \u003ci\u003eThe Assassin's Song\u003c\/i\u003e was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction. Most recently, his novel \u003ci\u003eNostalgia\u003c\/i\u003e was a finalist in Canada Reads 2017.","brand":"Emblem Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303449907429,"sku":"NP9780771087226","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780771087226.jpg?v=1767733814","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/no-new-land-isbn-9780771087226","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}