The hero's walk
Subtitle: a novel
By: Anita Rau Badami.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Knopf Canada; Distributed by Random House of Canada
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 359
Subjects: Grandfathers -- Fiction.; Canadians -- India -- Fiction.; Orphans -- Fiction.; Girls -- Fiction.; India -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Sripathi Rao lives in his crumbling ancestral home in India with his extended family. His daughter left years earlier to study in America and remained in Canada after marrying a Canadian man. Then Sripathi receives the news that his daughter and her husband have been killed and that his seven year old granddaughter must now come to live with him and the family in India.