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Author Zaidi, Annie, author

Title Bread, cement, cactus : a memoir of belonging and dislocation / Annie Zaidi ; with original illustrations by Yasmin Zaidi
Published New York : Cambridge University Press, 2020

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Summary "In this exploration of the meaning of home, Annie Zaidi reflects on the places in India from which she derives her sense of identity. She looks back on the now renamed city of her birth and the impossibility of belonging in the industrial township where she grew up. From her ancestral village, in a region notorious for its gangsters, to the mega-city where she now lives, Zaidi provides a nuanced perspective on forging a sense of belonging as a minority and a migrant in places where other communities consider you an outsider, and of the fragility of home left behind and changed beyond recognition. Zaidi is the 2019/ 2020 winner of the Nine Dots Prize for creative thinking that tackles contemporary social issues. "-- Provided by publisher
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Subject Zaidi, Annie
Authors, Indic -- 21st century -- Biography
Women authors, Indic -- 20th century -- Biography
Journalists -- India -- Biography
Authors, Indic.
Journalists.
Women authors, Indic.
India.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020019609
ISBN 9781108886932
1108886930
1108840647
9781108840644