Awards
- Winner of Saltire Society Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2022 (UK)
Overview
This book is about two unlikely friends. One born in 1970s 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.
Full Product Details
Author: Chitra Ramaswamy
Publisher: Canongate Books
Imprint: Canongate Books
Edition: Main
Dimensions:
Width: 14.40cm
, Height: 3.40cm
, Length: 22.00cm
Weight: 0.479kg
ISBN: 9781838852665
ISBN 10: 1838852662
Pages: 368
Publication Date: 21 April 2022
Audience:
General/trade
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College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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General
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
Praise for Expecting: Immediately, poignantly gripping . . . Laconic and magnificent * * Guardian * * An extraordinary book, and a glorious read -- DENISE MINA Elegant, funny, brimming with accurate observations and suffused with a gentle intimacy -- GAVIN FRANCIS An intelligent and intimate book -- Scotsman
An utterly engrossing story that spans the twentieth century, surveying otherness, family and belonging, but above all friendship. I could not stop reading this gorgeous book -- DENISE MINA A spellbinding story of triumph and tragedy, war and sanctuary, emigration and belonging. Fans of Sebald and De Waal are going to love this -- GAVIN FRANCIS A deeply reflective and moving account of a remarkable friendship that bridges a century. Homelands is at once meditative and urgent, humane and journalistic. I learned so much in these pages, and yet couldn't stop smiling at the simple strokes: the love, the kindness, the unlikely places friendship blooms -- DINA NAYERI Praise for Expecting: Immediately, poignantly gripping . . . Laconic and magnificent * * Guardian * * An extraordinary book, and a glorious read -- DENISE MINA Elegant, funny, brimming with accurate observations and suffused with a gentle intimacy -- GAVIN FRANCIS An intelligent and intimate book -- Scotsman
A spellbinding story of triumph and tragedy, war and sanctuary, emigration and belonging. Fans of Sebald and De Waal are going to love this -- GAVIN FRANCIS Praise for Expecting: Immediately, poignantly gripping . . . Laconic and magnificent * * Guardian * * An extraordinary book, and a glorious read -- DENISE MINA Elegant, funny, brimming with accurate observations and suffused with a gentle intimacy -- GAVIN FRANCIS An intelligent and intimate book -- Scotsman
Author Information
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
