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Penguin India drops Sonia Gandhi's memoir over edits
The Indian Express··28 Aug
Penguin Random House India will not publish Congress leader Sonia Gandhi's memoir 'Belonging: A Journey of Love', after she rejected editorial changes the publisher sought. HarperCollins is close to finalising a deal to publish it instead. The memoir, announced by US publisher Alfred A Knopf for a November 10 release, traces Gandhi's journey from Italy to the Nehru-Gandhi family.
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What It Means For You
- Sonia Gandhi's memoir will now reach Indian readers only through HarperCollins or another publisher, once a new distribution deal is finalised.
- The publisher dispute could delay the India release beyond the international November 10 date set by Knopf.
- Readers get insight into Sonia Gandhi's account of the Nehru-Gandhi family's history, including the deaths of Sanjay, Indira and Rajiv Gandhi, once it is published.
What's Happening
- Penguin Random House India sought 'editorial changes and deletions' in a section of the manuscript, which Sonia Gandhi rejected.
- Alfred A Knopf, a Penguin Random House imprint, first announced the memoir's international release with an initial print run of 100,000 copies.
- Rahul Gandhi spoke about his mother's memoir while marking his father Rajiv Gandhi's 82nd birth anniversary.
Penguin India's Pattern Of Pulled Books
- Penguin Random House India earlier said it had not printed General M M Naravane's memoir, though a copy was displayed by Rahul Gandhi in Parliament.
- In June, Penguin pulled Joe Sacco's graphic novel on the Muzaffarnagar riots over a map showing inaccurate Indian boundaries.
- Sonia Gandhi said the memoir offers a 'unique perspective of the social and political changes' she witnessed over six decades.
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