The beautiful testimony of an extraordinary experience, which marked the reunion of…
“I want parents,” Asha insisted when she was only five years old, sitting at the top of the stairs of the Bombay orphanage that had been her home until then. Finally, after a long time and countless bureaucratic procedures, in 1974 Asha traveled to Barcelona, where her new family awaited her.
She grew up with her adoptive parents and a sister, another Indian girl who had arrived before her, but her longing to visit her country pushed her to take the big step: in 1995, just after turning twenty-seven, she returned to Bombay to embrace her people and discover her origins.
The Daughter of the Ganges is the beautiful testimony of an extraordinary experience, which represented the reunion of this young and brave woman with a land she had believed lost forever.
Alongside her words, as a happy counterpoint, are the most touching pages of Asha’s adoptive mother’s diary, reflecting the fears, doubts, and love of parents in Spain who had awaited a child as if sent from heaven, and who later had to guide her first steps in a completely new world and culture.
What The Daughter of the Ganges offers us now are tender memoirs, recounting an experience as important as adoption and the extraordinary reunion with a past that shaped her into what she is today: a happy woman.
The author of The Daughter of the Ganges is Asha Miró Vega. The translator from her original language is Gemma Sardà Llavina. The book is written in Spanish and has a paperback binding. This publication has 128 pages.
The Daughter of the Ganges is published by DEBOLSILLO.
