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Title: Lost Homestead, The: My Mother, Partition & the Punjab
Author: WHEELER MARINA
Format: HARDCOVER
Publication date: 14/05/2020
Imprint: HODDER HEADLINE
Price: $55.00
Publishing status: Active
‘Deeply touching.’ – Daily Mail ‘A personal, sometimes harrowing history of partition… a writer well worth reading.’ – The Times ‘A deeply personal story of identity and a highly relatable journey for many in the diaspora… Wheeler taps a rich vein of personal history… Evocative… Gripping.’ – Financial Times ‘A timely read given the current reassessment of colonialism . . . a charming memoir that weaves the story of India independence and the tragedy of the partition with that of her mother’s own escape from an unhappy marriage.’ – Christina Lamb, Sunday Times ‘A personal, sometimes harrowing history of partition . . . by narrating partition with a focus on her mother’s family, the Singhs, she has made the abstractions of history suddenly more real: they are given names, faces and feelings . . . offers valuable insights, especially since Gandhi and Jinnah were also products of London’s inns of court . . . [Marina Wheeler is] a writer well worth reading.’ – Tanjil Rashid, The Times
ISBN: 9781473677746
Pages: 416