Bøger af Chetna Maroo

Smuk og stemningsfuld debutroman om sorg, søsterskab og en teenagepiges kamp for at finde sig selv. 11-årige Gopi har spillet squash, siden hun kunne holde på en ketsjer. Da hendes mor dør, indrullerer hendes far hende i et hårdt træningsregime, og spillet bliver hendes verden. Langsomt vokser hun fra sine søstre, og hendes liv reduceres til sporten: serven, volleyen, drevet og skuddet. Men hun er ikke alene: På banen er hun sammen med sin far og den talentfulde 13-årige dreng Ged. "Western Lane" er en uimodståelig coming of age-historie, der hylder uskylden og familien. Om forfatteren: Chetna Maroo er født i Kenya og har boet Storbritannien, siden hun var et år. Hun er vokset op i Luton, i en søskendeflok på seks. Hun har fået udgivet noveller i bl.a. The Paris Review. "Western Lane", som er hendes debutroman, var longlisted til Booker-prisen.

Longlisted for the 2023 Booker PrizeA 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.

Longlisted for the 2023 Booker PrizeA 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.