The Zigzag Way - Couverture souple

Desai, Anita

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0099472082 ISBN 13 : 9780099472087

Editeur : Vintage, 2005

Synopsis

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A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Eric is an uncertain, awkward young man, a would-be writer, and a traveller in spite of himself. Happy to follow his more confident girlfriend to Mexico, he is overwhelmed with sensory overload, but gradually seduced - by the strangeness, the colour, the mysteries of an older world. He finds himself on a curious quest for his own family in a 'ghost' mining town, now barely inhabited, where almost a hundred years earlier young Cornish miners worked the rich seams in the earth. On the D-a de los Muertos, the feast day when the locals celebrate and remember their dead, the various strands of the novel come together hauntingly, bringing together past and present in a moment of quiet, powerful epiphany.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Born and educated in India, she is the author of many novels and short stories, and has three times been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and though she lives in New York State, each year she spends time in India and Cambridge UK. In Custody was filmed by Merchant Ivory. She has travelled in Mexico, where she wrote part of this novel.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Vintage
• Date d'édition: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0099472082
• ISBN 13: 9780099472087
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 192