Western Lane Longlisted For The Booker Prize 2023

Name: Western Lane
Author: Maroo, Chetna

Auteur: Maroo, Chetna

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Maroo, Chetna

Engels
Hardcover
9781529094633
16 februari 2023
163 pagina's

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A deeply moving exploration of an immigrant fathers attempts to raise his family as a single parent, while consumed by his own grief and loss and struggling to recognize those of his children too. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2023. A beautiful and moving novel about grief, sisterhood and a teenage girl's struggle to transcend herself. 'WOW. Western Lane is glorious. You’ll want to read it over and over again.' - Aravind Adiga, author of The White Tiger 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. 'Few novelists write this simply and richly. With this gorgeous debut, Maroo blows most of the competition off the court.’ - The Times 'Feels like the work of a writer who knows what they want to do, and who has the rare ability to do it.' - The Guardian

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Hardcover
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 16 februari 2023
Aantal pagina's: 163
Illustraties: Nee

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Hoofdauteur: Maroo, Chetna
Hoofduitgeverij: Picador UK

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Editie: 1
Product breedte: 140 mm
Product hoogte: 15 mm
Product lengte: 225 mm
Studieboek: Nee
Verpakking breedte: 140 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 15 mm
Verpakking lengte: 225 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 290 g

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EAN: 9781529094633

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Categorieën: Literatuur & Romans

Sport & Outdoor

Literaire romans

Sportromans

Racketsport

Squash

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Select-bezorgopties: Vandaag Bezorgd, Avondbezorging, Zondagbezorging, Gratis verzending
Taal: Engels
Beschikbaarheid: Leverbaar

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