Homelands: The History of a Friendship - Softcover

Ramaswamy, Chitra

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1838852697 ISBN 13: 9781838852696

Publisher: Canongate Books, 2023

Synopsis

THE SALTIRE'S NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR
A GUARDIAN'S BEST MEMOIR AND BIOGRAPHY OF 2022

'Remarkable' The Times
'Achingly beautiful' Guardian
Beautiful in unusual and wonderful ways' Rebecca Solnit

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 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.

About this title

About the Author

Chitra Ramaswamy is a writer, journalist, and critic. Homelands (Canongate), a book about her friendship with a German Jewish refugee called Henry Wuga, won the Saltire Non-Fiction Book of the Year and was included in The Guardian's top memoirs and biographies of 2022. Her first book, Expecting: The Inner Life of Pregnancy (Saraband) won the Saltire First Book of the Year Award, was shortlisted for the Polari Prize, and was reissued in spring 2024. She has contributed essays to a number of collections and judged literary prizes including the Baillie Gifford prize for Non-Fiction, the Gordon Burn Prize, and the Desmond Elliot. Her latest book, a collection of micro-essays called Rich Things for the Alasdair Gray Archive, was published in spring 2026. She is the restaurant critic for The Times Scotland, for which she has won Food and Drink Writer of the Year at the Scottish Press Awards for four consecutive years and been shortlisted twice for Restaurant Writer of the Year at the Guild of Food Writers. She is also an occasional restaurant critic for The Observer, a TV critic and writer for The Guardian, and a regular contributor to Writers Mosaic, a division of the Royal Literary Fund. She is from London and lives in Leith, Edinburgh.

Edition details

• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1838852697
• ISBN 13: 9781838852696
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368