The Zigzag Way

Anita Desai author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Vintage Publishing

Published:7th Apr '05

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The Zigzag Way cover

'She is one of the best English language novelists of modern times' Daily Telegraph

Eric is an uncertain, awkward young man, a would-be writer, and a traveller in spite of himself. On the Día 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.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 Día 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.

'dense with evocative imagery' * The Guardian *

ISBN: 9780099472087

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 13mm

Weight: 139g

192 pages