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Western Lane
Publisher:
PICADOR INDIA
| Author:
Chetna Maroo
| Language:
English
| Format:
Paperback
Publisher:
PICADOR INDIA
Author:
Chetna Maroo
Language:
English
Format:
Paperback
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(Western Lane) feels like the work of a writer who knows what they want to do, and who has the rare ability to do it.’ – Guardian
‘Few novelists write this simply and richly. With this gorgeous debut, Maroo blows most of the competition off the court.? – Times
‘Terrific . . . Slim, subtle, moving . . . a bold book and a quietly brilliant one’ – Economist
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) feels like the work of a writer who knows what they want to do, and who has the rare ability to do it.’ – Guardian
‘Few novelists write this simply and richly. With this gorgeous debut, Maroo blows most of the competition off the court.? – Times
‘Terrific . . . Slim, subtle, moving . . . a bold book and a quietly brilliant one’ – Economist
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.
About Author
Chetna Maroo lives in London, UK. Her stories have been published in the Paris Review, the Stinging Fly and the Dublin Review and she was the recipient of the 2022 Plimpton Prize for Fiction.
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