A Life Less Ordinary - Softcover

Baby Halder

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9381017913 ISBN 13: 9789381017913

Publisher: Zubaan Publications, 2013

Synopsis

Language: English
Pages: 183


About The Book

‘A publishing sensation’ Amelia Gentleman, New York Times ‘A story of courage and grace a book worth waiting for’. Mahasweta Devi ‘Both a social and literary fence- breaker Truly this is a story of courage under fire.’ The Hindu,

The story of Baby Halder’s life is an extraordinary lesson in courage and survival. It is the story of a young domestic worker, who has battled poverty, hardship and violence to make a name for herself as writer. First published in Hindi, the book has since been translated into eight Indian languages, fourteen languages internationally, and has become a bestseller.

 

Foreword

Baby Halder’s moving and beautiful account of her life has been almost constantly in the news since it was published in India, first in Hindi and then in a number of other languages. Baby and that is her real name, although it probably began as a nickname (she does not remember being given a ‘proper’ name) is a young woman in her thirties, a mother of three. Abandoned as a young child by her mother, married, by an uncaring father, to a man fourteen years her senior when she was barely thirteen, a mother by the time she became fourteen, trapped in a violent marriage, Baby’s story is not unique. It is the story of thousands of women caught in similar situations across the world. What makes it different is the fact Baby’s strength and resolve, her determination not to stay in an abusive situation, to escape, to make a life for herself and her children, and, in the end, her absolute commitment to the one thing she had always held close to her heart, education and learning and the desire to read and write.

The story

Edition details

• Publisher: Zubaan Publications
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9381017913
• ISBN 13: 9789381017913
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176