Anita Rau Badami
Auteur de La Marche du héros
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- Nom canonique
- Rau Badami, Anita
- Date de naissance
- 1961
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- India
Canada - Lieu de naissance
- Rourkela, India
- Lieux de résidence
- Rourkela, India (birth)
Bombay, India
Montréal, Québec, Canada
Calgary, Alberta, Canada - Études
- University of Madras (BA, English)
University of Calgary (MA, English), 1995 - Prix et distinctions
- Marian Engel Award (2000)
- Agent
- The Bukowski Agency
- Courte biographie
- Anita was born in India in 1961. She grew up in a household, where English was the primary language spoken, and she attended Catholic schools. At age 18, she borrowed money from her father to buy novels, and to pay him back. She took her first writing assignment, an article in a local newspaper, which earned her 75 rupees. She worked as a copywriter for advertising agencies and she wrote stories for children magazines. Anita married in 1984 and she had a son in 1987. Anita moved to Calgary in 1991. In 1995, she graduated from the university of Calgary, with MA degree in English. Anita Rau Badami submitted her first work to Penguin books. Penguin published her work, and soon she was touring North America, reading from her best-selling debut novel "Tamarind Mem".
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Canadian Author Challenge — March: Farley Mowat & Anita Rau Badami à 75 Books Challenge for 2016 (Avril 2016)
The Hero's Walk à Orange January/July (Janvier 2012)
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- 9
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- 1
- Membres
- 1,231
- Popularité
- #20,854
- Évaluation
- 3.7
- Critiques
- 44
- ISBN
- 51
- Langues
- 5
- Favoris
- 5
Varsha is 13-years old (or 12?) when her half brother, Hemant, is born. Varsha’s had a tough life until now: her mother was leaving her father when she was in a car crash and died. Not long after, her father headed to India to bring home a new bride. Varsha is so scared of her new Mama leaving that she hides Suman’s passport so she is unable to.
Why might Suman want to leave? Abuse. It’s why Varsha’s mother tried to leave. When Vikram (Varsha’s father) decides to rent out the little house behind theirs in this tiny rural area in B.C. a former classmate (whom he does not remember), Anu, comes from NYC in hopes of getting some writing done. While there, she befriends Suman and Vikram’s mother, Akka. And slowly figures out something is wrong with the family.
This was told from many different points of view, including Suman, Anu, Varsha, and Hemant, so we got to see almost everyone’s perspective of what was going on. Varsha became very possessive – she was very controlling (reminiscent of her father?); I initially felt badly for her, but came to quite dislike her. And the end? I liked it although many might not due to