International IMPAC DUBLIN Literary Award 2002

In the dusty seaside town of Toturpuram on the Bay of Bengal, Sripathi Rao, an intractable man and disenchanted copywriter, lives in his crumbling ancestral home, uncomfortably aware that the modern world is fast encroaching. Then, early one morning, Sripathi is woken by the news of a tragedy in faraway Canada: his long-estranged daughter and her husband have been killed. Their surviving seven-year-old daughter, Nandana, is about to become his reluctant ward. Another addition to Big House, which already contains Nirmala, Sripathi's frustrated but ever-dutiful wife; Ammayya, his miserly, manipulative mother; Putti, his sister, unmarried in her forties, dreaming of love and still sharing a bed with her mother; and Arun, his only son, an unemployed crusader for endangered sea turtles. Small, silent Nandana from distant Canada- bewildered and powerless might be the one person who can bring harmony back into Big House and hope into her grandfather's failed life. A book that explores the potential for heroism in the small disasters of everyday life.

The Hero's Walk	Nominated ISBN: 067697225X	Find out more about the author on the following websites: Includes biographical information on Ms. Badami Author photograph and interview *Salon* review of Hero's Walk
by
*Anita Rau Badami*

Nominated by:
Vancouver Public Library, Vancouver, Canada

Books nominated for the 2002 Award
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