Journey to Ithaca
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:5th Apr '01
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
'One of the best Indian novelists writing in English' - Independent
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.Like so many other young Westerners in the 1960s and 1970s, 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.
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 *
ISBN: 9780099428473
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 20mm
Weight: 233g
320 pages