'Superbly powerful...A rich, evocative book' Spectator
Like so many other young Westerners in the 60s and 70s, Matteo leaves home to search for spiritual enlightenment in the ashrams of India. He believes he finds it at the feet of 'the Mother', but down-to-earth Sophie, who accompanies him, does not find her inspiring so much as mysterious, and decides to trace the Mother's own story - from her travels with an Indian dance troupe in Paris, Venice and New York, to her search for divine love in India.
'Anita Desai is one of the most brilliant and subtle writers ever to have described the meeting ot eastern and western culture' Alison Lurie
'A beautiful book of epic scope. Anita Desai has surpassed her own previous high standards' Literary Review
'Full of revelations and pleasures' Independent on Sunday
"A beautiful book of epic scope... Anita Desai has surpassed her own previous high standards" (Literary Review)
"Full of revelations and pleasures" (Independent on Sunday)
"She writes an extraordinarily delicate, lucid English... She is a writer's writer in that anyone who has ever set pen to paper must ask himself just what it is about the writing that makes it so memorable" (Victoria Glendinning Times Literary Supplement)
"Superbly powerful... A rich, evocative book" (Spectator)
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