Getting There - Couverture souple

Manjula, Padmanabhan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0330480383 ISBN 13 : 9780330480383

Editeur : Picador, 2002

Synopsis

It is the late 1970s and Manjula Padmanabhan is in her mid-twenties trying to find her way in the world. Life in Bombay is proving tricky: there are the visits to Dr Prasad’s diet clinic, where `the body beautiful’ comes in the form of photographs of gloomy nudes; lunch at her brother’s house, where snacks are thrown across the room and are caught by the dog; and then there are the intriguing Dutch visitors . . . As relationships become ever more chaotic, our extremely likeable heroine begins to think that the West is really her spiritual home. She sets off with her boyfriend to the suburbs of New York where the American dream appears on a plate: daytime TV, mountains of food and visits to the New York City Morgue. But this is just the beginning of the author’s journey as she travels to Europe where, it seems, her quest for contentment might have ended.

With a playwright’s playful ear for dialogue and sparkling wit, Getting There will touch anyone who has ever wondered where and when they might begin to fit in.

`refreshingly frank and very funny’ Daily Telegraph

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Padmanabhan Manjula was born in 1953. She is an artist, illustrator, cartoonist, playwright and novelist. She has illustrated 21 children's books, and her comic strips appeared weekly in the Sunday Observer (Bombay, 1982-86) and daily in the Pioneer (New Delhi, 1991-97). Her play, Harvest, won the 1997 Onassis Award for Theatre.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Picador
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0330480383
• ISBN 13: 9780330480383
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 336
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible