Amriika - A Novel

Author: M G VassanjiPublisher: HarperCollinsYear: 2000Language: EnglishPages: 309ISBN/UPC (if available): 8172233930 DescriptionA novel of personal and political awakening, and of the eternal quest for home. Amriika is a remarkable novel of personal and political awakening that spans three decades and explores the eternal quest for home. It is quintessentially North American novel, told from the point of view of a man from Dar es Salaam, East Africa. In 1968, Ramji, a student, arrives in an America far different from the one he dreamed about, one caught up in anti-war demonstrations, revolutionary lifestyles, and spiritual quests. As he gradually grows apart from his community of foreign students, Ramji finds himself pulled by the tumultuous current of his times and swept into a world of changing values and sexual freedom, of peace marches, religious cults, and protest bombings. Much later, with his marriage faltering, and living a suburban life in a changed America, he meets a yo