The hero's walk : a novel / Anita Rau Badami.
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. His mother is disappointed that he never became a doctor; his sister, longing for love, is the bane of local matchmakers; his only son prefers embarrassing student activism over employment; and his wife, though ever-dutiful, has become disillusioned and bitter. But the small disasters of everyday life wither when his beloved daughter - long estranged because of her marriage to a white Canadian - and her husband are killed in a car crash. Nandana, their surviving seven-year old daughter, is about to become Sripathi's reluctant ward and the wayward catalyst that forces him to come to terms with the pain of his loss.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780676972252 :
- ISBN: 9780676973600
- ISBN: 067697225X :
- ISBN: 0676973604
- Physical Description: 359 p. ; 22 cm.
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: Toronto : Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2000.
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Subject: | Canadians > India > Bengal > Fiction. Families > Fiction. Granddaughters > Canada > Fiction. Orphans > Fiction. Resentment > Fiction. Grandfathers > India > Fiction. Bengal (India) > Fiction. |
Genre: | Canadian fiction. Domestic fiction. |
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