Western Lane
| 作者 | Chetna Maroo |
|---|---|
| 出版社 | PAN MACMILLAN |
| 商品描述 | Western Lane：ThebeautyofMaroo’snovelliesin[its]unfolding,thenarrativeshapedasmuchbywhatisonthepageasbywhat’sleftunsaid...Inthisgracefulnovel,thegameofsquashb |
內容簡介
內容簡介 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.
各界推薦
各界推薦 The beauty of Maroo’s novel lies in [its] unfolding, the narrative shaped as much by what is on the page as by what’s left unsaid . . . In this graceful novel, the game of squash becomes a way into Gopi’s grief and her attempts to process it. ― The New York Times Melancholy is only one of the moods of this short but brimming book. Squash is also a channel for Gopi’s rage; for connections with other players and her longsuffering father; and for a joyous kind of freedom of expression. The novel ends with the tournament, as it must, and Ms. Maroo’s writing achieves its most graceful rhythms and prescient insights. You’ll want to applaud. ― Wall Street Journal Combining the precision and the efficiency of an athlete with the mysteries of childhood loss and memory, Western Lane is a novel in which we linger on every breathing line and relish every close observation. What an exceptionally talented writer Chetna Maroo is!’ -- Yiyun Li, author of A Thousand Years of Good Prayers and Where Reasons End
作者介紹
作者介紹 Chetna MarooChetna 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. Western Lane is her first novel.
商品規格
| 書名 / | Western Lane |
|---|---|
| 作者 / | Chetna Maroo |
| 簡介 / | Western Lane：ThebeautyofMaroo’snovelliesin[its]unfolding,thenarrativeshapedasmuchbywhatisonthepageasbywhat’sleftunsaid...Inthisgracefulnovel,thegameofsquashb |
| 出版社 / | PAN MACMILLAN |
| ISBN13 / | 9781529094626 |
| ISBN10 / | 1529094623 |
| EAN / | 9781529094626 |
| 誠品26碼 / | 2682369566007 |
| 頁數 / | 176 |
| 裝訂 / | H:精裝 |
| 語言 / | 3:英文 |
| 尺寸 / | 25.4X20.3X4.7CM |
| 級別 / | N:無 |
最佳賣點
最佳賣點 : 紐約時報、華爾街日報、Kirkus書評齊聲讚譽推薦‧新人作家Chetna Maroo出道作