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Author: Lapierre, Dominique
Brand: NARRATIVE
Genre: Literature and fiction
Number of pages: 200
Publisher: The Assayer
Details: Product description In the early seventies Dominique Lapierre, with Larry Collins, arrives in New Delhi to write the extraordinary story of India's independence from the British Empire. It is the beginning of a prodigious love story. At the wheel of an old Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud - the car of the maharajas covers more than twenty thousand kilometers in six months. He collects unique testimonies and documents, lives daring adventures, knows and even manages to interview the assassins of Mahatma Gandhi. The result will be "Freedom Tonight", an epic story about the struggle for Indian independence. After the first trip, Lapierre will return to India incessantly, engaging in concrete programs against the conditions of extreme poverty. Meet Mother Teresa of Calcutta; collaborates with James Stevens, founder of the Udayan center, thanks to which thousands of children of lepers are snatched from poverty and disease. Lapierre's intervention will prove decisive for the survival and revitalization of this institution. The years lived among the underprivileged in the slums of Pilkhana will follow, alongside the Swiss nurse Gaston Grandjean. Years of great momentum and immersion in suffering and deprivation from which a famous book and film will see the light: "The City of Joy". Repeated journeys into the mysteries of the country-continent, the vitality and charm of humanity encountered condense in "India mon amour".
EAN: 9788842816812
Release date: 2011-01-13
Package Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.7 x 0.9 inches