Journey to Ithaca - Rilegato

Desai, Anita

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ISBN 10: 0679439005 ISBN 13: 9780679439004

Casa editrice: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1995

Riassunto

Joining in the 1970s flight of young people to India, Matteo, who is enchanted by Herman Hesse's "Journey to the East," and Sophie, who is obsessed with Matteo, seek spiritual enlightenment and meet a holy woman known as the Mother

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Anita Desai teaches in the writing program at MIT.

Anita Desai was born in Mussorie, India, and was educated in Delhi. Her published works include short stories, children's books, and nine novels. Two of her novels, Clear Light of Day (1980) and In Custody (1984), were short-listed for England's celebrated Booker Prize. In Custody has recently been made into a full-length feature film by Merchant Ivory Productions.<br><br>Anita Desai teaches in the writing program at MIT and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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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 aspirations and adventures of three superbly realized characters.<br><br>Matteo and Sophie join the 1970s flight of young Europeans to India. Matteo -- Italian, raised in the luscious countryside around Lake Como, restless since childhood -- has been introduced by a tutor to Hermann Hesse's The Journey to the East, and it opens in him a desperate longing. Sophie -- German, practical, worldly -- is willing to follow him to the ends of the earth.<br><br>In India, together they visit swamis, gurus, ashrams -- always searching. Matteo is seeking spiritual enlightenment, but for Sophie fulfillment lies in earthly love. And when they meet a holy woman known as the Mother, the differences between them seem to explode.<br><br>When we learn the Mother's story, we see it as an earlier version of their own -- the st

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0679439005
• ISBN 13: 9780679439004
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile