Homelands : The History of a Friendship

Author: Ramaswamy, Chitra

Memoirs

Published on 6 April 2023 by Canongate Books in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 368 pages, integrated b&w photos
197 x 130 x 22 | 252g

THE SALTIRE'S NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEARA GUARDIAN'S BEST MEMOIR AND BIOGRAPHY OF 2022 'Remarkable' The Times'Achingly beautiful' GuardianBeautiful in unusual and wonderful ways' Rebecca SolnitThis 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 is a story of migration, racism, family, belonging, grief and resilience. It is about the state we're in now and the ways in which we carry our pasts into our futures.