Anita Rau Badami

The Hero's Walk (eBook, ePUB)

A Novel

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

After the release of Anita Rau Badami's critically acclaimed first novel, Tamarind Mem, it was evident a promising new talent had joined the Canadian literary community. Her dazzling literary follow-up is The Hero's Walk, a novel teeming with the author's trademark tumble of the haphazard beauty, wreckage and folly of ordinary lives. Set in the dusty seaside town of Toturpuram on the Bay of Bengal, The Hero's Walk traces the terrain of family and forgiveness through the lives of an exuberant cast of characters bewildered by the rapid pace of change in today's India. Each member of the Rao family pits his or her chance at personal fulfillment against the conventions of a crumbling caste and class system. Anita Rau Badami explains that "The Hero's Walk is a novel about so many things: loss, disappointment, choices and the importance of coming to terms with yourself and the circumstances of your life without losing the dignity embedded in all of us. At one level it is about heroism - not the hero of the classic epic, those enormous god-sized heroes - but my fascination with the day-to-day heroes and the heroism that's needed to survive all the unexpected disasters and pitfalls of life."

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Knopf Canada
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. September 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780307363954
• Artikelnr.: 39203993

Autorenporträt

ANITA RAU BADAMI is the author of four critically acclaimed, bestselling novels: Tamarind Mem, The Hero's Walk, Can You Hear the Nightbird Call?, and Tell It to the Trees. Her novels have been published in several countries including the U.K., U.S.A., France, Germany, India, and Spain. She was previously a freelance journalist, and her work has appeared in newspapers and magazines in Canada and abroad. In 2000, she won the Marian Engel Award for excellence in fiction for a body of work. This same year, The Hero's Walk was nominated for the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Prize for Fiction. It also won the 2001 Commonwealth Prize for the Caribbean-Canada region and was nominated for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize.