Homelands
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Homelands

The History of a Friendship

  1. 304 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Homelands

The History of a Friendship

About this book

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.

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Information

Publisher
Canongate Books
Year
2022
Print ISBN
9781838852696
9781838852665
eBook ISBN
9781838852672
Topic
History
Subtopic
Social Science Biographies
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Prologue ‘It’s the truth!’
  2. ‘We were sailing near the wind.’
  3. ‘Within half an hour I became a dangerous enemy alien category A’
  4. ‘The law is a ass.’
  5. ‘The mustard is running over!’
  6. ‘My special attitude’
  7. ‘I went up to the gods.’
  8. ‘I’m still upright, aren’t I!’
  9. ‘Now be the Heinz that left us.’
  10. ‘The other country.’
  11. ‘Du bist ein cavalier’
  12. ‘We tried to carry on as normally as we could.’
  13. ‘Good to see you and that lovely BOY.’
  14. ‘Wuga is a most unusual name.’
  15. ‘We wanted you to have everything.’
  16. ‘I saw a piano fly out of a first-floor window.’
  17. ‘Was it anything to do with us both being German?’
  18. ‘I was a sun child.’
  19. ‘It all goes back to the house on the hill.’
  20. ‘There was more to Austerlitz than he could ever know.’
  21. ‘Hello, Cheetah!’
  22. ‘It was the first time I went in the sea.’
  23. ‘What will happen to Europe?’
  24. ‘I am the last one left.’
  25. ‘You are prepared for whatever will happen.’
  26. ‘She was very quiet, and very kind.’
  27. ‘That’s the kind of place Baden-Baden was.’
  28. ‘If I had not left I would have been taken away to Dachau with them.’
  29. ‘My thoughts are always with you.’
  30. ‘The mere power that she had.’
  31. ‘Your mother showed love from the saucepan.’
  32. ‘It wasn’t all chicken soup and chopped liver.’
  33. ‘A man filled with empathy.’
  34. ‘My Ingrid’
  35. ‘Our buddleia’
  36. ‘We are not like other Indians.’
  37. ‘One of your first words was “home”.’
  38. ‘I won’t be ninety-seven, I’ll be Henry Wuga.’
  39. ‘This train journey will forever be in my mind.’
  40. Hinterlands
  41. Acknowledgements
  42. Credits, Permissions, References

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