Homelands

Publisher:
CANONGATE
| Author:
RAMASWAMY, CHITRA
| Language:
English
| Format:
Hardback
Publisher:
CANONGATE
Author:
RAMASWAMY, CHITRA
Language:
English
Format:
Hardback

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SKU 9781838852665 Category Tag
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368

THE SALTIRE’S NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR A GUARDIAN’S BEST MEMOIR AND BIOGRAPHY OF 222 This book is about two unlikely friends. One born in 197s Britain to Indian immigrant parents, the other arrived from Nazi Germany in 1939, fleeing persecution. This book is about common ground. It is a story of migration, anti-Semitism, racism, family, belonging, grief and resilience. This book is about the past and the present. It is about the state we’re in now and the ways in which we carry our pasts into our futures. This book is about homelands.

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THE SALTIRE’S NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR A GUARDIAN’S BEST MEMOIR AND BIOGRAPHY OF 222 This book is about two unlikely friends. One born in 197s Britain to Indian immigrant parents, the other arrived from Nazi Germany in 1939, fleeing persecution. This book is about common ground. It is a story of migration, anti-Semitism, racism, family, belonging, grief and resilience. This book is about the past and the present. It is about the state we’re in now and the ways in which we carry our pasts into our futures. This book is about homelands.

About Author

Chitra Ramaswamy is an award-winning journalist and author. Her first book, Expecting: The Inner Life of Pregnancy, won the Saltire First Book of the Year Award and was shortlisted for the Polari Prize. She has contributed essays to Antlers of Water, Nasty Women, The Freedom Papers, The Bi-ble and Message from the Skies. She is a TV critic for the Guardian, the restaurant critic for The Times Scotland, a columnist for the National Trust for Scotland and broadcasts regularly for BBC Radio Scotland. She lives in Edinburgh with her partner, two young children and rescue dog. @Chitgrrl

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