No New Land Author:M. G. Vassanji No New Land is an original, wryly humorous novel by M. G. Vassanji, whose highly praised first novel, The Gunny Sack, won a Regional Commenwealth Prize. — It is the mid 1970's. Nurdin Lalani and his family, Asian immigrants from Africa, have come to the new world of the Toronto suburb of Don Mills, to find things are not as they expected. Murdi... more »n Lalani is haunted by his old-world values, has trouble finding a decent job, and one night he comes home with the news that he has been accused of attacking a girl. The story goes back in time to the events leading up to this incident.« less