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Western Lane

Chetna Maroo

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  • 160 sidor
  • 2023

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 both a valentine and an elegy for innocence-for the closeness of sisterhood, for the strange ways we come to know ourselves and each other, for the force of obsession and its consequences.

  • Författare: Chetna Maroo
  • Format: Inbunden
  • ISBN: 9780374607494
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 160
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2023-02-07
  • Förlag: Farrar, Straus And Giroux