num_pages: 359
description: In a small, dusty town in India, Sripathi Rao struggles as a copywriter to keep his family afloat in their crumbling ancestral home. But his mother berates him for not becoming a lawyer, his son prefers social protest to work, his unmarried sister seethes with repressed desire, and his wife, though subservient, blames him for refusing to communicate with their daughter Maya, who defied tradition, rejecting her proper Brahmin fiancé for a Caucasian husband. Then a phone call brings Maya and her husband have been killed in an accident leaving Sripathi to be their daughter’s guardian. Sripathi reluctantly travels to Vancouver to bring the child back to India. Nandana has not spoken a word since her parents’ death. Terrified, she resists her distant grandfather. Filled with guilt about his daughter but unable to express his feelings, Sripathi finds everything in his life falling apart. But with Nandana’s arrival, his world slowly, unexpectedly, finds new hope.The Hero’s Walk is a remarkably intimate novel that fills the senses with the unique textures of India. With humor and keen insight, Anita Rau Badami draws us into her story of the graceful heroism of the ordinary.
language: English
title: The Hero's Walk: A Novel
titlecomplete: The Hero's Walk: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
genres: Fiction, Indian Literature, Asia, Canadian Literature, Canada, India, Literature, Read For School, Contemporary, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 3955
places: India
awards: awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Orange Prize
category: Fiction Longlist, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Commonwealth Writers' Prize
category: Best Book in Caribbean and Canada, awardedAt: 1451635200000
name: CBC Canada Reads, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Kiriyama Prize
category: Fiction
publisher: Ballantine Books