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Paperback Journey to Ithaca Book

ISBN: 0140258183

ISBN13: 9780140258189

Journey to Ithaca

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In her first novel since the widely praised Baumgartner's Bombay, Anita Desai brilliantly evokes spiritual India in all its endless complexity, and examines the nature of pilgrimage through the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

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Remarkable

Matteo and Sophie travel to India where he searches for spiritual enlightenment while she sulks in boredom and disdain. Desai does a remarkable job of capturing the spirit of the seeker, the hypocrisy of those who prey upon them, the disappointment and destruction that seeking can bring, the relief of finding one's true teacher, and the escstasy of meeting god. A truly rich, beautiful, and compelling story that makes the reader loathe to put the book down. If Desai's other novels are on par with this one (and I intend to find out), her books will be filling my shelves.

Gorgeous.

Desai is a writer who repays re-reading. This book is subtle and textured. The author plays marvelously with time and consciousness in ways reminiscent of Virginia Woolf, brought up to date.
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