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Shortlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize 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.
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Western Lane, Chetna Maroo
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- Rok vydania
- 2023
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- Titul
- Western Lane
- Jazyk
- anglicky
- Autori
- Chetna Maroo
- Vydavateľ
- Picador
- Rok vydania
- 2023
- Väzba
- mäkká
- Počet strán
- 160
- ISBN10
- 125032193X
- ISBN13
- 9781250321930
- Série
- Štítky
- Beletria, Šport, Súčasná literatúra, Rodina, Dospievanie, Squash
- Prvé vydanie
- 2023
- Pôvodný názov
- Western Lane
- Hodnotenie
- 3,5 z 5
- Anotácia
- Shortlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize 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.