We're proud to be publishing the acclaimed Indian author Githa Hariharan's book of travel essays, Almost Home: Finding a Place in the World from Kashmir to New York. In a series of engrossing and politically charged essays, Hariharan explores some of the world’s most radiant—and radioactive—places, across both time and space. A great fan of Hariharan’s, J.M. Coetzee frames her book this way:

“In essays that bespeak a thoroughly cosmopolitan sensibility, Githa Hariharan not only takes us on illuminating tours through cities rich in history, but gives a voice to urban people from all over the world—Kashmir, Palestine, Delhi—trying to live with basic human dignity under circumstances of dire repression or crushing poverty.”

In Almost Home, Githa Hariharan offers a timely perspective on our post-colonial, rapidly globalizing world via some of its most contested places—Delhi, Mumbai, Kashmir, Palestine, Algeria, Tokyo, Washington, New York—posing the questions, to whom does a city belong, and what makes a place “home”?

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We're delighted that Githa will be touring the US this Spring. Catch her in person and pick up a copy of Almost Home at these events: