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~ Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book in Caribbean and Canada - 2001
Ageing, disenchanted, and struggling to keep his job, Sripathi Rao has never been a lucky man, and now after a life haunted by mistakes, all he is left with are regrets and an orphaned granddaughter to raise . . .
A luminous novel of grief and second chances, The Hero's Walk sees a grandfather and his silent granddaughter remake a family and embark on a journey through the minefields of the human heart.
“A skilled writer can convey epic events through the lives of ordinary people, and Anita Rau Badami’s The Hero’s Walk, which deals with the transmutations of a millennia-old culture, is an outstanding example of such skill.” -- The Commonwealth Writers Prize Judges