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Rumpus Book ClubOctober 22nd, 2009
Richard LeComte: The Last Book I Loved, The Assassin’s Song
Having read several textbooks in library science and young adult novels over the past few months, my memory turns eagerly back to The Assassin’s Song by M. G. Vassanji, which I read last year.
This book mixes the yearnings of a boy growing up at a Sufi shrine, where his father is treated partly as prophet and partly as priest, with the story of the founder of the shrine, a traveling Sufi saint whose spiritual powers resonate to this day. …more
