{"product_id":"almost-home-finding-a-place-in-the-world-from-kashmir-to-new-york-paperback","title":"Almost Home: Finding a Place in the World from Kashmir to New York - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGitha Hariharan\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"In essays that bespeak a thoroughly cosmopolitan sensibility, Githa Hariharan not only takes us on illuminating tours through cities rich in history, but gives a voice to urban people from all over the world--Kashmir, Palestine, Delhi--trying to live with basic human dignity under circumstances of dire repression or crushing poverty.\" --JM Coetzee\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat does a medieval city in South India have in common with Washington, D.C.? How do people in Kashmir envision the freedom they long for? To whom does Delhi, city of grand monuments and hidden slums, actually belong? And what makes a city, or any place, home? In ten intricately wrought essays, renowned author Githa Hariharan takes readers on an eye-opening journey across time and place, exploring the history, landscape, and people that have shaped the world's most fascinating and fraught cities. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eInspired by Italo Calvino's playful and powerful writing about journeys and cities, Harihan combines memory, cultural criticism, and history to sculpt fascinating, layered stories about the places around the world--from Delhi, Mumbai, and Kashmir to Palestine, Algeria, and eleventh-century Córdoba, from Tokyo to New York and Washington. In narrating the lives of these places' vanquished and marginalized, she plumbs the depths of colonization and nation-building, poverty and war, the struggle for human rights, and the day-to-day business of survival. \u003ci\u003eAlmost Home: Finding a Place in the World from Kashmir to New York\u003c\/i\u003e presents a new kind of travel writing that is intellectually adventurous but never detached, couched in personal experience but deeply engaged in the world, inviting the reader to make surprising connections with her own sense of home. \u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn in Coimbatore, India, \u003cb\u003eGitha Hariharan\u003c\/b\u003e grew up in Bombay and Manila. She was educated in those two cities and later in the United States. She has worked as a staff writer for WNET-Channel 13 in New York, an editor for Orient Longman, a freelance professional editor for a range of academic institutions and foundations, and visiting professor at a number of international universities. Her first novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Thousand Faces of Night\u003c\/i\u003e (1992) won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for best first book in 1993. Her other novels include \u003ci\u003eThe Ghosts of Vasu Master \u003c\/i\u003e(1994), \u003ci\u003eWhen Dreams Travel\u003c\/i\u003e (1999), \u003ci\u003eIn Times of Siege \u003c\/i\u003e(2003), and \u003ci\u003eFugitive Histories\u003c\/i\u003e (2009). She has also published a highly acclaimed short story collection, \u003ci\u003eThe Art of Dying\u003c\/i\u003e, and a book of stories for children, \u003ci\u003eThe Winning Team\u003c\/i\u003e. Her essays and fiction have also been included in anthologies such as Salman Rushdie's \u003ci\u003eMirrorwork: 50 Years of Indian Writing 1947-1997\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in New Delhi.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 8.2 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 22, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48821911453945,"sku":"9781632060617","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/ck8GQ_ggXG9781632060617.webp?v=1786792054","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/almost-home-finding-a-place-in-the-world-from-kashmir-to-new-york-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}