Inheritance - Couverture souple

Ganesan, Indira

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0099268469 ISBN 13 : 9780099268468

Editeur : Vintage, 1998

Synopsis

This is a cross-cultural East-West love story and a voyage of self-discovery. At age 15, Sonil leaves Madras to spend a magical summer on the island of Pi with her mother and alluring cousin. There she discovers a sensual world, where things are not always what they seem.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Characters leap off the pages and into our hearts. . . . Ganesan crafts her work with such a gracefully light touch that readers leave the book with the sense of having just experienced something exquisitely fine. -Joan Hinkemeyer, Rocky Mountain News

Inheritance is a gracefully wrought novel centering on the emotional awakening of Sonil, a fifteen-year-old girl living with her aunts in India. Overcome by a lingering illness, she travels to the mythic island of Pi to recover under the care of her beloved grandmother. In this lush Arcadian space, boundaries between what is real and what is not diminish, and Sonil begins to discover who she is. Rejected by her emotionally distant mother and searching desperately for any information about her American father, she seeks solace in an affair with an American man twice her age. It is through that relationship of love and loss that she begins to understand and forgive her mother, realizing for the first time what she has inherited and what she must forge for herself.

Revue de presse

Ganesan's ingenious charms as a social and spiritual observer bejewel the novel. . . . People float in and land fleetingly, like mirages, on the island, which begins to resemble a microcosmic kaleidoscope of the human, the natural, and the magical folded into one-a small, storied panoply of Ganesan's imagination. -Kirkus Reviews

"Ganesan describes Sonil's anxieties and ambitions with moving intensity. . . . [She] has created an appealing young heroine whose determination and sensitivity wins us over." -Edward Hower, New York Times Book Review

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Vintage
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0099268469
• ISBN 13: 9780099268468
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 151
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible