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The hero's walk : a novel

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.

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  • ISBN: 0676973604
  • ISBN: 067697225X :
  • ISBN: 9780676973600
  • ISBN: 97806769736010
  • ISBN: 9780676972252 :
  • Physical Description: 359 p. ; 22 cm.
    print
  • Edition: 1st ed.
  • Publisher: Toronto : Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2000.
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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  • 7 of 8 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Prince Rupert Library.

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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.
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