Chetna Maroo
autor
Western Lane
Jedenáctiletá Gopi hraje squash od doby, kdy byla dost stará na to, aby mohla držet raketu. Když jí zemře matka, otec ji zapojí do nového tréninkového režimu, který zprvu působí nevinně, ale ukáže se být neobvykle tvrdým, až brutálním, pohlcujícím. Gopi se začíná postupně vzdalovat svým dvěma sestrám, její život a celý její svět se smrskne výhradně na sport a začne se řídit jeho rytmem: Podání, volej, úder. Na kurtu ale není sama. Je se svým tátou. Je s Gedem, ohromně talentovaným třináctiletým chlapcem. Je s hráči, kteří tu byli před ní. Nezapomenutelný příběh o dospívání zachycuje obyčejnost s neotřelou krásou. Ukazuje nevinnost a roztodivné způsoby, jakými poznáváme sami sebe i jeden druhého. Napínavá, strhující prvotina o smutku, sesterství a snaze mladé sportovkyně překonat sama sebe.
Autorka velmi prostě a čtivě vypráví nesmírně dojemný příběh, aniž by sklouzla do sentimentality, a román se objevil v užší nominaci Bookerovy ceny za rok 2023.
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Western Lane
A deeply moving novel about grief, sisterhood, squash and a teenage girl'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 unforgettable coming-of-age story, Chetna Maroo’s first novel is a moving exploration of the closeness of sisterhood, the immigrant experience, and the collective overcoming of grief.
Western Lane
A beautiful and moving first novel about grief, sisterhood and a teenage girl'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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