The hero's walk : a novel
Record details
- ISBN: 0676973604
- ISBN: 067697225X :
- ISBN: 9780676973600
- ISBN: 97806769736010
- ISBN: 9780676972252 :
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Physical Description:
359 p. ; 22 cm.
print - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: Toronto : Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2000.
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Genre: | Canadian fiction. Domestic fiction. |
Available copies
- 7 of 8 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Prince Rupert Library.
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- 0 current holds with 8 total copies.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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Prince Rupert Library | Bada (Text) | 33294001118983 | Adult Fiction - Second Floor | Volume hold | Available | - |
Summary:
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.