Heaven on Wheels

by Firdaus Kanga

To see Britain through the eyes of Firdaus Kanga is a rare revelation. It is a view, as he says himself, gained from one eye misted with Anglophilia and the other clear and wide open. Firdaus arrived in London for the first time prior to publication of his first autobiographical novel, Trying To Grow, an account of a Parsee childhood in Bombay in which a congenital condition characterized by brittle bones left him disabled but undaunted.

240 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 1992

Reviews

[Haroon Shareef]

Inspiring,Sad writing by Firdaus Kanga (Indian writer) ....This book is about his meeting with Stephen Hawking where Stephen Hawking gives a big message for disabled people "Disabled People should concentrate on what they are good at" Things like Disabled Olympics is a waste of time and useless says the greatest scientist of our time...

[Sneh Pradhan]

Laced with dollops of humor , peeking out through the veneer of the daily struggles of a "disabled" person , this book is a delightful account of the author's experiences .

[Kanishka]

“When your body is a claustrophobic room and the walls are growing narrower day by day, it doesn’t do much good to know that there are people outside smiling with admiration to see you breathing still.”

[Sajukumar]

❤️

[Sam]

notbad

[Siddarth]

I like this book very much

[Richard]

I really disagreed with his Thatcherite politics, but this was pretty interesting anyway.