Western Lane
- Auteur: Chetna Maroo (Engeland)
- Soort boek: Engelse debuutroman
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: Picador
- Verschijnt: 11 mei 2023
- Omvang: 176 pagina’s
- Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
- Prijs: € 25,95 / € 17,76
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol
- Shortlist Booker Prize 2023
Flaptekst van de roman van Chetna Maroo
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.