The Boat People - Sharma, Shiv
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The year is 1964 and Jaggi is one of a group of 128 Indians who set sail from Bombay (now Mumbai) for Britain aboard an Italian ocean liner. Shortly after arriving in London they part company, each to go their own way. While the vast majority of them choose to settle down in the economically vibrant South, an accident of fate takes Jaggi up North. Some 34 years later "the boat people" meet again - on board the luxury yacht of one of them, who is now a multi-millionaire businessman. He has organised the get-together to toast their collective success in their new homeland. But Jaggi finds he has…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
The year is 1964 and Jaggi is one of a group of 128 Indians who set sail from Bombay (now Mumbai) for Britain aboard an Italian ocean liner. Shortly after arriving in London they part company, each to go their own way. While the vast majority of them choose to settle down in the economically vibrant South, an accident of fate takes Jaggi up North. Some 34 years later "the boat people" meet again - on board the luxury yacht of one of them, who is now a multi-millionaire businessman. He has organised the get-together to toast their collective success in their new homeland. But Jaggi finds he has little to celebrate about ... and there are further shocks waiting for him.
Autorenporträt
Shiv Sharma was born in Simla, India, and had his early education in New Delhi and Bombay where his father was a film writer and director. After taking his Master's degree in philosophy from Punjab University he briefly worked as a journalist in Bombay. In 1964 he came to Britain and joined the Western Mail in Cardiff as a sub-editor and was there for three years. From there he moved to Manchester and for the next 20 years was on the staff of The Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail, The Guardian and the Daily Mirror. In London he was the editor of Indiamail, a weekly for the Indian community in Britain, for three years. He had a short stint of work in the Middle East and his last job was as a sports columnist on the Guardian Weekly. Shiv Sharma is now a full-time writer and lives in Wilmslow, Cheshire. He is married to Dr Swatantrata (Penny) Chandiok, a retired hospital consultant. They have one son, Sachin Sharma.