{"product_id":"the-heros-walk-a-novel-ballantine-readers-circle","title":"The Hero's Walk: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle)","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eThe Hero's Walk: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle)\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eAnita Rau Badami\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780345450920\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eBallantine Books\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2002\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eReprint\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eIn a small, dusty town in India, Sripathi Rao struggles as a copywriter to keep his family afloat in their crumbling ancestral home. But his mother berates him for not becoming a lawyer, his son prefers social protest to work, his unmarried sister seethes with repressed desire, and his wife, though subservient, blames him for refusing to communicate with their daughter Maya, who defied tradition, rejecting her proper Brahmin fiancé for a Caucasian husband. Then a phone call brings tragedy: Maya and her husband have been killed in an accident leaving Sripathi to be their daughter's guardian. Sripathi reluctantly travels to Vancouver to bring the child back to India. Nandana has not spoken a word since her parents' death. Terrified, she resists her distant grandfather. Filled with guilt about his daughter but unable to express his feelings, Sripathi finds everything in his life falling apart. But with Nandana's arrival, his world slowly, unexpectedly, finds new hope. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eThe Hero's Walk\u003c\/i\u003e is a remarkably intimate novel that fills the senses with the unique textures of India. With humor and keen insight, Anita Rau Badami draws us into her story of the graceful heroism of the ordinary.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Ballantine Books","offers":[{"title":"The Hero's Walk: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle) | Anita Rau Badami | Paperback | 9780345450920 | Used: Very Good | Fiction 1559271","offer_id":48310743695512,"sku":"1559271","price":7.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/71N6hj3MwxL.jpg?v=1773155301","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/the-heros-walk-a-novel-ballantine-readers-circle","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}