Summary
A surprising, richly told memoir that seamlessly weaves the personal with the political to tell a riveting story: of love, of family, and of an endlessly fascinating country, India.
How did a girl from a small village in Italy rise as a politician in India and become known around the world?
Belonging begins in Cambridge, England, where in 1965 Sonia Maino, a nineteen-year-old student, falls in love at first sight with the handsome, dark-eyed young man…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780008787974 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0008787972 |
| Author: | Sonia Gandhi |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Imprint: | William Collins |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 544 |
| Release Date: | 10 November 2026 |
| Weight: | 700g |
| Dimensions: | 46mm x 153mm x 234mm |
Sonia Gandhi
Sonia Gandhi grew up in the Piemontese village of Sangano and the town of Orbassano near Turin. After studying foreign languages in Turin she went to England to study English in Cambridge, and in 1968 moved to India to marry Rajiv Gandhi.
After his assassination, she published a pictorial biography of him, as well as a book of his photographs. She had earlier edited two volumes of a private correspondence between Indira Gandhi and her father Jawaharlal Nehru, Freedom’s Daughter and Two Alone, Two Together.
She lives in New Delhi, presently as a Member of the Rajya Sabha, the Upper House of India’s Parliament. Her son, Rahul, and her daughter, Priyanka, are Members of Parliament in the Lok Sabha, the Lower House, where Rahul is also Leader of the Opposition.
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