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In Spite of Oceans

In Spite of Oceans

Migrant Voices

by Huma Qureshi
Paperback
Publication Date: 06/10/2014

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'In Spite of Oceans: Migrant Voices' explores the individual journeys of generations in transition from the South Asian subcontinent to England. Poignantly written, and based on real events and interviews, what emerges is the story of lives between cultures, of families reconciling customs and traditions away from their ancestral roots, and of the tensions this necessarily creates.

We hear from the young bride from Bangladesh, married to a stranger, who comes to England to navigate life with a man she cannot love; from an Indian father who struggles to come to terms with his son's mental illness and hides it from people he knows; about how a mother and daughter's relationship was shattered in the clash over the Pakistani traditions her daughter chooses not to follow.

Each narrative describes a journey that is both literal and deeply emotional, exploring the hold an inherited culture can have on the decisions and choices we make. At times heart-breaking, at times inspirational, 'In Spite of Oceans' brings to life the pull of the past and the push of the future, and the evolving nature of what we understand as home.
ISBN:
9781845888183
9781845888183
Category:
General & world history
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
06-10-2014
Language:
English
Publisher:
The History Press Ltd
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
192
Dimensions (mm):
234x156x18mm
Weight:
0.31kg
Huma Qureshi

Huma Qureshi is an award-winning writer and journalist, and contributor to The Best Most Awful Job: Twenty Writers Talk Honestly About Motherhood (2020). A former Guardian reporter, she has also written for The Times, Independent, Observer, Grazia, New Statesman, and The Huffington Post.

She is a regular contributor to BBC2’s Pause for Thought and has appeared as a contributor on BBC Woman’s Hour, BBC London, BBC Breakfast and the BBC Asian Network. She is the winner of the 2020 Harper’s Bazaar Short Story Prize.

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