{"product_id":"western-lane","title":"Western Lane","description":"\u003cp\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.' - Guardian'Few novelists write this simply and richly. With this gorgeous debut, Maroo blows most of the competition off the court.’ - Times'Terrific . . . Slim, subtle, moving . . . a bold book and a quietly brilliant one' - EconomistEleven-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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxfordbookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44784628269235,"sku":"9788119300150","price":720.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0718\/4164\/4723\/files\/81-yBUuU90L.jpg?v=1762792424","url":"https:\/\/oxfordbookstore.com\/products\/western-lane","provider":"Oxfordbookstore ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}