The Red Sari by Javier Moro
Book
Description
A transfixing novel about the
Nehru-Gandhi family, told through the story of Sonia Gandhi, an Italian from
modest origins who becomes one of the world’s most powerful women
In 1965 Sonia Maino, a nineteen-year-old Italian student, meets a young Indian man named Rajiv Gandhi. She is the daughter of a humble family near Turin; he comes from the most powerful lineage in India. It is the beginning of a love story that not even death can end. In the name of love, Maino leaves her past to blend in with her expansive new country, India, which worships twenty million gods, speaks eight hundred languages, and votes for five hundred political parties. Her courage, integrity, and devotion will turn her into a revered and beloved figure.
In 1965 Sonia Maino, a nineteen-year-old Italian student, meets a young Indian man named Rajiv Gandhi. She is the daughter of a humble family near Turin; he comes from the most powerful lineage in India. It is the beginning of a love story that not even death can end. In the name of love, Maino leaves her past to blend in with her expansive new country, India, which worships twenty million gods, speaks eight hundred languages, and votes for five hundred political parties. Her courage, integrity, and devotion will turn her into a revered and beloved figure.
Book Readers Review
According to another reviewer, Felicity
Gibson, who states that she works in India.
This book is apparently “The fictionalized biography of Sonia Gandhi,
the leader of the Congress Political Party in India today. Mrs. Gandhi is suing the author, Javier Moro,
for defamation in writing this book; it is banned in India”. But the story is based on historical
facts. I have not, at this time,
finished the book…it is quite long and absorbing, I am almost half way. I find that I need to read a few chapters and
take a break, reading something that is ‘lighter’. Yet, find myself returning to The Red Sari often.
Thank you NetGalley and Open Road Integrated Media for the Author Review Copy
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