The Hero's Walk by Anita Rau Badami All he ever wanted was

All he ever wanted was an ordinary life with a solid job and a happy family

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The Hero's Walk by Anita Rau Badami All he ever wanted was*Used very good condition Published by Vintage Canada 2001 Sripathi Rao's life is as arid as the dusty South Indian town where he lives. All he ever wanted was an ordinary life with a solid job and a happy family. But Sripathi has never been a lucky man. Now ageing and disenchanted, struggling to keep his job, Sripathi lives in the crumbling ancestral house with his lonely spinster sister, embittered mother, and a wife and son he hardly knows anymore.