{"product_id":"8g4zjpl3mxuo","title":"Western Lane [Hardcover]","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'Few novelists write this simply and richly. With this gorgeous debut, Maroo blows most of the competition off the court.’ - The Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'Terrific . . . Slim, subtle, moving . . . a bold book and a quietly brilliant one' - The Economist\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA beautiful and moving first novel about grief, sisterhood and a teenage girl's struggle to transcend herself.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEleven-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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBut 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAn 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'[Western Lane] feels like the work of a writer who knows what they want to do, and who has the rare ability to do it.' - The Guardian\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Pan Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48328339587322,"sku":"8G4ZJPL3MXUO","price":425.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0704\/0473\/5226\/files\/8G4ZJPL3MXUO-1.jpg?v=1724134395","url":"https:\/\/versoz.co.in\/products\/8g4zjpl3mxuo","provider":"VERSOZ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}