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Jasvinder Sanghera
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Shame Travels: A Family Lost, A Family Found |
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No copies available |
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English |
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Paperback |
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304 |
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2012-02-02 |
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0340962097 |
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Hodder Paperbacks |
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0.44 pounds |
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0.79 x 5.08 x 7.8 inches |
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Product Description
Shame Travels Jasvinder Sanghera, international bestselling author of SHAME, describes her life-changing journey to the rural Punjabi village of Kang Sabu - the village where her parents grew up. Full description
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Marianne (Australia) (2011/12/30):
Shame Travels is the 3rd book by Jasvinder Sanghera, a sequel to her first two books, Shame and Daughters of Shame. Jasvinder Sanghera is an activist and advocate for women's rights who was born in Derby. She is the co-founder of Karma Nirvana, a community-based project where several refuge centres across the United Kingdom serve as safe-housing for South Asian women fleeing forced marriages. This book details her journey to India, to the village in rural Punjab where her father was born, and to her mother’s fabled Golden Temple at Amritsar. This was a journey she had hoped to make with her father, but, after fleeing at fifteen to escape a forced marriage, her family disowned her, citing the shame she brought to them, and, even after a reconciliation of sorts, her father refused to let her accompany him, telling her “Shame travels”. Challenging 30 years of rejection by her family in the UK, Jasvinder decides to find out if she has any family who won’t reject her. She finds her Punjab family, makes discoveries about the lies her UK family has told, learns about the Sikh religion, and is ultimately vindicated for her youthful actions. This book is more than just a memoir: it is also powerfully enlightening about forced marriage and honour-based crimes in the UK. This book is inspirational, uplifting and revelatory: quite an eye-opener. And for those who don’t usually bother with the appendix, this is certainly a sobering one: details of known honour killings in the UK. I found one observation particularly insightful: “…sometimes survivors can’t forgive their families, because the person who could have forgiven them no longer exists.”
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