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Sonia Gandhi Memoir Chronicles Love, Loss and Political Life
Sonia Gandhi has written a book about her life.
It is called Belonging: A Journey of Love.
The book will be released on November 10.
It tells how she moved from post-war Italy to India.
She writes about meeting and marrying Rajiv Gandhi.
She also describes learning Hindi, wearing saris and adapting to Indian life.
The book discusses the deaths of Sanjay Gandhi, Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi.
Sonia says these painful experiences helped lead her into politics.
She says writing about these private memories was difficult.
Sonia Gandhi’s 544-page memoir, Belonging: A Journey of Love, will be released on November 10.
The book describes her journey from post-war Italy to India and decades in public life.
Gandhi says heartbreak and loss pushed her into politics after years of fiercely guarding her privacy.
The memoir begins with her meeting Rajiv Gandhi in Cambridge in 1965, when she was 19.
It recounts her family’s tragedies, including the deaths of Sanjay Gandhi, Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi.
- Who
- Sonia Gandhi, her family and the people involved in her personal and political journey.
- What
- The publication of Sonia Gandhi’s 544-page memoir, Belonging: A Journey of Love.
- Where
- The memoir follows Gandhi’s life from post-war Italy and Cambridge, England, to India; the first article was datelined New York and the second New Delhi.
- When
- The memoir is scheduled for release on November 10; the articles do not specify the year.
- Why
- Gandhi says heartbreak and loss drew her into politics, while the memoir reflects on love, family, identity, duty and India’s social and political changes.
Key facts
- Book
- Belonging: A Journey of Love
- Author
- Sonia Gandhi
- Length
- 544 pages
- Release
- November 10
- Formats
- Hardcover and e-book, with an audio edition
- Publishers
- Alfred A Knopf; Penguin Random House for the audio edition
- First printing
- 100,000 copies announced by the publisher
Quotes
Sonia Gandhi
Senior Congress leader
“Writing about my life did not come easily to me. It meant opening myself up, sharing moments and experiences I had always held deep inside.”
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“It was heartbreak and loss that threw me into the public world of politics. Up till then I had guarded my privacy fiercely.”
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