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The Hero's Walk: A Novel Audiobook
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After the release of Anita Rau Badami's critically acclaimed first novel, Tamarind Mem, it was evident a promising new talent had joined the Canadian literary community. Her dazzling literary follow-up is The Hero's Walk, a novel teeming with the author's trademark tumble of the haphazard beauty, wreckage and folly of ordinary lives. Set in the dusty seaside town of Toturpuram on the Bay of Bengal, The Hero's Walk traces the terrain of family and forgiveness through the lives of an exuberant cast of characters bewildered by the rapid pace of change in today's India. Each member of the Rao family pits his or her chance at personal fulfillment against the conventions of a crumbling caste and class system.
Anita Rau Badami explains that "The Hero's Walk is a novel about so many things: loss, disappointment, choices and the importance of coming to terms with yourself and the circumstances of your life without losing the dignity embedded in all of us. At one level it is about heroism - not the hero of the classic epic, those enormous god-sized heroes - but my fascination with the day-to-day heroes and the heroism that's needed to survive all the unexpected disasters and pitfalls of life."
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"What a treat it is to read Anita Rau Badami. . . . The Hero's Walk is a novel of a traditional, nearly anachronistic, storytelling-as-transport kind; an escape, an entertainment—that mere but elusive thing most of us, after all, are seeking in good fiction."
— National Post
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A big-hearted and compulsively readable novel. . . . [Badami is] a gifted observer of the human comedy.
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A powerful heady mix of brilliant characters, poignant reality, and a rare depth of emotional integrity and commitment. . . . This is a book you will want to explore and savour.
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An unforgettable and heart-wrenching tale.
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The Hero's Walk is beautifully crafted—rich and lush. . . . It offers bittersweet epiphanies amidst life's tragedies and showcases a novelist on the move.
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[Badami] has an amazing knack for hauling together the beauty, mess, joy and folly of ordinary people's lives.
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Its sly wit and penetrating insights illuminate a bittersweet story. . . . [This] is a chronicle that echoes what Graham Greene once called the random shrapnel of human experience.
— London Free Press
Awards
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Among shortlisted titles for Canada Reads, 2016
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Among longlisted titles for IMPAC Dublin Award, 2001
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Among shortlisted titles for Canada Reads, 2016
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Among longlisted titles for IMPAC Dublin Award, 2001
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About Anita Rau Badami
Anita Rau Badami‘s first novel was the bestseller Tamarind Woman. Her bestselling second novel, The Hero’s Walk, won the Regional Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and Italy’s Premio Berto, was named a Washington Post Best Book, was longlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Orange Prize for Fiction, and was a finalist for the Kiriyama Prize. Her third novel, Can You Hear the Nightbird Call?, was released in 2006 to great acclaim, longlisted for the IMPAC Award, and named a finalist for the City of Vancouver Book Award. The recipient of the Marian Engel Award for a woman writer in mid-career, Badami is also a visual artist. She lives in Montreal.