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A People's History of Heaven (Hardcover): Mathangi Subramanian

A People's History of Heaven (Hardcover)

Mathangi Subramanian

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A politically driven graffiti artist. A transgender Christian convert. A blind girl who loves to dance. A queer daughter of a hijabi union leader. These are some of the young women who live in a Bangalore slum known as Heaven, young women whom readers will come to love in the moving, atmospheric, and deeply inspiring debut, A People's History of Heaven.

Welcome to Heaven, a thirty-year-old slum hidden between brand-new high-rise apartment buildings and technology incubators in contemporary Bangalore, one of India's fastest-growing cities. In Heaven, you will come to know a community made up almost entirely of women, mothers and daughters who have been abandoned by their men when no male heir was produced. Living hand-to-mouth and constantly struggling against the city government who wants to bulldoze their homes and build yet more glass high-rises, these women, young and old, gladly support one another, sharing whatever they can.
 
This is a story about geography, history, and strength, about love and friendship, about fighting for the people and places we love even if no one else knows they exist. Elegant, poetic, bursting with colour, Mathangi Subramanian's novel is a moving and celebratory story of girls on the cusp of adulthood who find joy just in the basic act of living.

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Imprint: Oneworld Publications
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: September 2019
Authors: Mathangi Subramanian
Dimensions: 225 x 146 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 978-1-78607-676-2
Categories: Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Poverty
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Unemployment
Books > Health, Home & Family > Family & health > Popular medicine > Women's health
Books > Children's & Educational > Life skills & personal awareness, general studies > Personal awareness: family, relationship & social issues > General
Books > Children's Fiction & Fun
LSN: 1-78607-676-4
Barcode: 9781786076762

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