Western Lane by Chetna Maroo
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize
Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
Named a Best Book of the Year by The Guardian, NPR, and Kirkus
A taut, enthralling first novel about grief, sisterhood, and a young athlete's struggle to transcend herself.
Eleven-year-old Gopi has been playing squash since she was old enough to hold a racket. When her mother dies, her father enlists her in a quietly brutal training regimen, and the game becomes her world. Slowly, she grows apart from her sisters. Her life is reduced to the sport, guided by its rhythms: the serve, the volley, the drive, the shot and its echo.
But on the court, she is not alone. She is with her pa. She is with Ged, a thirteen-year-old boy with his own formidable talent. She is with the players who have come before her. She is in awe.
An indelible coming-of-age story, Chetna Maroo's first novel captures the ordinary and annihilates it with beauty. Western Lane is a valentine to innocence, to the closeness of sisterhood, to the strange ways we come to know ourselves and each other.
| SKU | Nicht verfügbar |
| ISBN 13 | 9781250321930 |
| ISBN 10 | 125032193X |
| Titel | Western Lane |
| Autor | Chetna Maroo |
| Buchzustand | Nicht verfügbar |
| Bindungsart | Paperback |
| Verlag | St Martin's Press |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2024-02-06 |
| Seitenanzahl | 160 |
| Preise | Commended for Man Booker Prize (Novel) 2023 |
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