Bøger af Chetna Maroo
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138,95 - 165,95 kr. 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.
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188,95 kr. 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.
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- 188,95 kr.
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123,95 - 198,95 kr. - Bog
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288,95 kr. 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.
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- 288,95 kr.