Maroo Chetna
Maroo Chetna - Western Lane A Novel - Paperback
Maroo Chetna - Western Lane A Novel - Paperback
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Description: 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.
Title: Western Lane A Novel
Author(s): Maroo Chetna
Publisher: Picador
Barcode: 9781250321930
Pages: 160 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 11/21/2023
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
Description: 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.
Title: Western Lane A Novel
Author(s): Maroo Chetna
Publisher: Picador
Barcode: 9781250321930
Pages: 160 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 11/21/2023
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
