Sonia Gandhi Named Her Memoir 'Belonging' For A Reason Worth Noticing
\n\nA memoir can run to hundreds of pages, yet its author must first distil a whole life into a single word on the cover. Sonia Gandhi had a hard one to choose. Her book stretches from a village in post-war Italy to the summit of Indian politics, across love, assassination and power declined. From all of it, she settled on one word: 'Belonging'. For a woman who spent decades being told she did not, the choice is anything but casual.
\n\nThe memoir, titled 'Belonging: A Journey of Love', arrives on 10 November 2026, published worldwide by Alfred A. Knopf and in India by HarperCollins, after Penguin Random House India stepped away over an editorial disagreement. Across its 544 pages, the once intensely private Sonia Gandhi tells her story with unexpected warmth. It opens not in Delhi but in Cambridge in 1965, where a nineteen-year-old language student named Sonia Maino falls for a gentle young Indian called Rajiv Gandhi, the grandson of Jawaharlal Nehru.
\n\nWhat follows is a life she could scarcely have imagined: marriage into India's first family, a move to India in 1968, the formidable presence of her…
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