- Editorial:
- PENGUIN
- Año de edición:
- 2023
- Materia
- General fiction
- ISBN:
- 978-1-5290-9462-6
- Encuadernación:
- Hardback
WESTERN LANE HBK
MAROO, CHETNA
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2023. The International Bestseller. Longlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award 2023.
A beautiful and moving novel about grief, sisterhood, squash and a teenage girl's struggle to transcend herself. 'With this gorgeous debut, Maroo blows most of the competition off the court.' - The TimesEleven-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 unforgettable coming-of-age story, Chetna Maroo's first novel is a moving exploration of the closeness of sisterhood, the immigrant experience, and the collective overcoming of grief. 'WOW.
Western Lane is glorious. You'll want to read it over and over again.' - Aravind Adiga, author of The White Tiger'Stunning . .
. Spare, tender, brilliantly achieved . .
. A novel that unfolds in silences . .
. and dares to leave much unsaid.' - The Guardian
