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The hero's walk : a novel
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- ISBN: 9780307363954
- ISBN: 0307363953
- ISBN: 0676973604
- ISBN: 9780676973600
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1 online resource (359 pages) - Publisher: Toronto : Vintage Canada, [2001, 2000]
- Copyright: ©2000
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| Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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| Subject: | Grandfathers -- Fiction Canadians -- India -- Fiction Orphans -- Fiction Girls -- Fiction India -- Fiction FICTION -- General Canadians Girls Grandfathers Orphans India |
| Genre: | Domestic fiction. Electronic books. Domestic fiction. Fiction. |
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"In a small, dusty Indian town near the Bay of Bengal, a middle-aged man lives in his crumbling ancestral home, uncomfortably aware of the encroaching modern world. Sripathi Rao's life hasn't turned out the way he thought it would: his job as a copywriter is unrewarding; his old widowed mother nags him; his unmarried forty-one-year-old sister is on the verge of sexual combustion; his only son resists gainful employment; and his silently resentful wife blames him for the estrangement of their daughter, who lives in Canada." "Then tragedy strikes: Sripathi's daughter and her husband have been killed in a car accident. Their seven-year-old child, Nandana, is about to become Sripathi's reluctant ward. Yet Nandana has never met her grandfather, has never been to India, and hasn't spoken a word since the tragedy. When Sripathi brings Nandana to India, life suddenly changes for everyone in the family, and the worn threads of Sripathi's world begin to unravel. Small, silent Nandana may be the one person who can bring harmony into the house and hope back into her grandfather's life."--Jacket.
