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Western Lane: Shortlisted For The Booker Prize 2023

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Booklist also reviewed the novel, [9] as well the audiobook, noting that "London actor [Maya] Saroya is a gentle, measured cipher, moving seamlessly between the crisper British English of the sisters and their contemporaries and the more lyrical South Asian accents of the older generation.

The language barrier meant they “pulled at her, pushed into her, made ourselves physical in her presence”. Taking a break and immersing herself in various readings ultimately led to a significant breakthrough.As a former national squash champion and an internationally ranked player, I had never considered the power of that echo until I read Maroo’s description. In the unlikely arena of a high-pressure tournament match, she finally discovers a place where “no one was rushing me, and if I wanted to, I could think”. Gopi cares how her feet fall on the court, the curve of her arm through the air, how close she can keep to the “T”. The sisters have always spoken Gujarati, their mother tongue, but not well enough to converse easily with their own mother, and so when she was alive the girls had learned to read her body and to communicate by being physical in her presence.

Soon Pa is neglecting his job as an electrician and turning a blind eye to his family’s financial troubles, not to mention their emotional ones.

Pa is outwardly positive, but Gopi reads his “eyes and body”: “He was telling us that in one day we had exposed him, left him behind, left him wide open to whatever was coming for him. They stay up late to watch the same video of the great Pakistani champion Jahangir Khan over and over again.

Cautioned by a concerned relative to find a healthy outlet for his daughters, Pa turns the family’s casual weekly squash game at a local sports center into daily, determined training sessions.Just as important to the novel, and just as vivid, is the almost inexpressible experience of a human body negotiating a transparent box, the heightened awareness that “Jahangir had for a situation, his sense for what was going on behind him”.

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