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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.

Publication Info. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2020.

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Description 1 online resource
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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. (OCoLC)fst00822111
Journalists. (OCoLC)fst00984188
Women authors, Indic. (OCoLC)fst01177285
India. (OCoLC)fst01210276
Chronological Term 1900-2099
Other Form: Print version: Zaidi, Annie. Bread, cement, cactus New York : Cambridge University Press, 2020. 9781108840644 (DLC) 2020019608
ISBN 9781108886932 (ebook)
9781108840644 (hardback)
1108886930
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