The Hero's Walk [Paperback]

Confident and engaging ... a wise and affectionate portrait ... teems with memorable characters and wry cameos' INDEPENDENT

'A bittersweet tale dealing with the conflict within families and the heartrending effects of death'

'Moving and thought-provoking ... a powerful journey through the minefields of the human heart. Don't miss it'

'Witty, subtle and beautifully wrought ... Badami will be a major force in world literature'

'Outstanding ... a dazzling portrait of loss ... far superior to Rushdie or Vikram Seth'

"this is a novel that fully immerses the reader in its tale and is a hugely rewarding read."

Sripathi Rao's life is as arid as the dusty South Indian town where he lives. All he ever wanted was an ordinary life with a solid job and a happy family. But Sripathi has never been a lucky man. Now ageing and disenchanted, struggling to keep his job, Sripathi lives in the crumbling ancestral house with his lonely spinster sister, embittered mother, and a wife and son he hardly knows anymore. His only joy is his talented, vibrant daughter Maya. But when Maya marries Alan, a fellow student at her American university, Sripathi angrily cuts her off, until he receives a phone call from Vancouver informing him that Maya and her husband have been killed in a car crash. All Sripathi is left with are his regrets and Maya's seven-year-old daughter, Nandana. Confused and scared, little Nandana must move to India, and adjust to a life with the family she has never met before.

Winner of the Commonwealth Prize.
International Bestseller

Anita Rau Badami was born in India and lives in Vancouver.

'What was going on in that small head? he wondered, observing the rejection in those dark eyes. Her mother's eyes. Large, black, depthless. Did she hate him? She must have questions about him - a grandfather who had appeared out of the blue in a brand-new crumpled shirt, bought especially from Beauteous Boutique. Had she even heard of Toturpuram, a small town halfway across the world from Vancouver...' --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.