The Zigzag Way
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:7th Apr '05
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
'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