As Frank tries to save Presley from the onslaught of memory, cracks emerge in his own fiction, and the thoughts that sneak through suggest a connection between the two men that goes well beyond a doctor and his patient. Vassanji (1950- ) of Indian heritage he belongs to the. Persistent thoughts are torturing Presley, recurring images of another time and place. the nostalgia for the lost home, which in the ultimate analysis becomes analogous.

But one day, Presley Smith arrives in Frank's office. Read Nostalgia reviews, author details and more at Bookish Santa. He is satisfied in his profession, more or less secure in the life he shares with his much younger lover, content with his own fiction. Doctor Frank Sina specializes in sealing these memory leaks. On occasion, though, cracks emerge, and reminders of discarded lives seep through, thoughts from a previous existence burrowing in the conscious mind. Nostalgia is set in a futuristic Toronto where the rich. To make the transition, traces of a person's past are erased and new, complete fictions are implanted in their stead. M.G Vassanjis latest book Nostalgia tries to carry those themes into a new genre, speculative fiction. The prospect of eternal life, however, presents a new problem: rejuvenated bodies require rejuvenated identities. VASSANJI won the Giller Prize for The Book of Secrets and The In-Between World of Vikram Lall, and the Governor General's Literary Award for Non-Fiction for A Place Within: Rediscovering India. Thus, in this paper, I want to move between Vassanjis fiction and my own story of diasporic return in order to theorize the dangers of nostalgia and to. In the indeterminate future in an unnamed western city, physical impediments to immortality have been overcome. Nostalgia thrills, inspires, and, in its best moments, provokes.' About the Author M.G.

Nostalgia by M.G. Vassanji