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- Editora: PAN MACMILLAN UK
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- Ano: 2023
- ISBN: 9781529094640
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Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2023. The International Bestseller.A beautiful and moving novel about grief, sisterhood and a teenage girl's struggle to transcend herself.With this gorgeous debut, Maroo blows most of the competition off the court.’ – The TimesElevenyearold 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 thirteenyearold boy with his own formidable talent. She is with the players who have come before her. She is in awe.An indelible comingofage story, Chetna Maroo’s first novel captures the ordinary and annihilates it with beauty…
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