
A Country Called Childhood: A Memoir
by
Deepti Naval
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9789390652624
Publication Date: 07/02/2022
A Country Called Childhood is a beautifully told memoir of growing up in Amritsar in the tumultuous 1950s and 60s by award-winning actress Deepti Naval. In extremely visual and evocative prose, Naval describes an unforgettable childhood filled withove, adventure, mystery, tragedy, and joy. She uncovers, in great detail,ife in an unconventional Punjabi family while plunging the reader into the distinctive sights, smells, and sounds of a fast-vanishing India. Starting at the moment of her birth on a rainy night, she tracks her journey to adulthood, a path punctuated by many personal turning points as also momentous events of national importance, such as the Sino-Indian War of 1962 and the Indo-Pak War of 1965. Moving and illuminating, A Country Called Childhood shows how Naval's earlyove affair with cinema and the experiences of her childhood shaped her career as one of the country's most admired actors.
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