Journey to Ithaca - Brossura

Desai, Anita

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0140258183 ISBN 13: 9780140258189

Casa editrice: Penguin Books, 1996

Riassunto

Young lovers Sophie and Matteo are dissatisfied with their middle-class upbringing and travel to India in search of spiritual fulfillment, but the realities of life on an ashram intensify the lovers' differences, until they learn that wisdom is found in the journey itself, not its destination. Reprint.

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Anita Desai was born in 1937; her father was Bengali and her mother German, and she was educated in Delhi. Her publihsed work includes Clear Light of Day, which was shortlisted for the 1980 Booker Prize, Fire on the Mountain, for which she won the Royal Society of Literature's Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize and the 1978 National Academy of Letters Award, In Custody, which was shortlisted for the 1984 Booker Prize, a volume of short stories, Games at Twilight, and Baumgartner's Bombay, all of which are publihsed in Penguin. She has also written several books for children. She is a member of the Advisory Board for English of the National Academy of Letters in Delhi and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in London. She was awarded the Neil Gunn International Fellowship for 1994. Anita Desai is married, has four children, and lives in India.

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• Editore: Penguin Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0140258183
• ISBN 13: 9780140258189
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 336