The Book of Secrets

In 1988 a retired schoolteacher named Pius Fernandes receives an old diary found in the back room of an East African shop. Written in 1913 by a British colonial administrator the diary captivates Fernandes who begins to research the coded history he encounters in its terse laconic entries. What he uncovers is a story of forbidden liaisons and simmering vengeances family secrets and cultural exiles--a story that leads him on an investigative journey through his own past and Africa''s.