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Shortlisted for the Booker PrizeLonglisted for the Women's Prize for FictionA New York Times Notable Book of the YearNamed a Best Book of the Year by The Guardian, NPR, and Kirkus A taut, enthralling first novel about grief, sisterhood, and a young athlete'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.

Shortlisted for the Booker PrizeLonglisted for the Women's Prize for FictionA New York Times Notable Book of the YearNamed a Best Book of the Year by The Guardian, NPR, and Kirkus A taut, enthralling first novel about grief, sisterhood, and a young athlete'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.

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2023Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2024Longlisted for the William Hill Award 2023A BBC Arts & The Reading Agency's Big Sporting Read selectionSelected by Dua Lipa as one of Service95's 'Books of the Year''A beautiful and evocative novel about grief, about growing up, about losing and winning. The people and places in this book will stay with me for a long time.' – Sally Rooney, author of Normal PeopleA deeply moving 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 unforgettable coming-of-age story, Chetna Maroo’s Western Lane is an exploration of the closeness of sisterhood, the immigrant experience, and the collective overcoming of grief.A 'Book of the Year' in The Economist, The Independent, The Week, The New York Times and The Guardian'With this gorgeous debut, Maroo blows most of the competition off the court.' – The Times'Stunning . . . Spare, tender, brilliantly achieved . . . A novel that unfolds in silences . . . and dares to leave much unsaid.' – The Guardian

A deeply moving exploration of an immigrant father's attempts to raise his family as a single parent, while consumed by his own grief and loss and struggling to recognize those of his children too.

'A beautiful and evocative novel about grief, about growing up, about losing and winning. The people and places in this book will stay with me for a long time.' – Sally Rooney, author of Normal PeopleA Times Best Paperback of the YearShortlisted for the Booker PrizeLonglisted for the Women's Prize for FictionLonglisted for the William Hill AwardA BBC Arts & The Reading Agency's Big Sporting Read selectionSelected by Dua Lipa as one of Service95's 'Books of the Year'A deeply moving 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 unforgettable coming-of-age story, Chetna Maroo’s Western Lane is an exploration of the closeness of sisterhood, the immigrant experience, and the collective overcoming of grief.A 'Book of the Year' in The Economist, The Independent, The Week, The New York Times and The Guardian'With this gorgeous debut, Maroo blows most of the competition off the court.' – The Times'Stunning . . . Spare, tender, brilliantly achieved' – The Guardian

«En nydelig og oppslukende roman om sorg og oppvekst, seier og tap. Menneskene og stedene i denne boka vil sitte igjen lenge i meg.» Sally Rooney 11 år gamle Gopi har spilt squash siden hun var gammel nok til å holde i en racket. Når moren plutselig dør, tyr faren til et knallhardt treningsregime for å takle sorgen og eneansvaret, og squashallen blir Gopis verden. ? Chetna Maroos rørende og usedvanlig vakre debutroman ble nominert til Bookerprisen og sammenlignet med forfattere som Ocean Wuong og Kazuo Ishiguro. Det handler om søstre, squash og sorg, om britisk-indiske familietradisjoner, og om en ensom far som gjør så godt han kan når han plutselig må oppdra tre tenåringsdøtre alene. ? ? ?

Smuk og stemningsfuld debutroman om sorg, søsterskab og en teenagepiges kamp for at finde sig selv. 11-årige Gopi har spillet squash, siden hun kunne holde på en ketsjer. Da hendes mor dør, indrullerer hendes far hende i et hårdt træningsregime, og spillet bliver hendes verden. Langsomt vokser hun fra sine søstre, og hendes liv reduceres til sporten: serven, volleyen, drevet og skuddet. Men hun er ikke alene: På banen er hun sammen med sin far og den talentfulde 13-årige dreng Ged. Western Lane er en uimodståelig coming of age-historie, der hylder uskylden og familien. Om forfatteren: Chetna Maroo er født i Kenya og har boet Storbritannien, siden hun var et år. Hun er vokset op i Luton, i en søskendeflok på seks. Hun har fået udgivet noveller i bl.a. The Paris Review. Western Lane, som er hendes debutroman, var longlisted til Booker-prisen.