Journey to Ithaca / Anita Desai
Material type: TextSeries: San Miguel de Allende (Mexico)--AuthorPublication details: New York : Alfred A. Knopf , c1995.Description: 312p. ; 22 cmISBN:- 9780679439004
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Fiction / Ficción | Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles | General | FIC DES (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 010393 |
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FIC DES Hullabaloo in the guava orchard | FIC DES In custody | FIC DES Fire on the mountain | FIC DES Journey to Ithaca | FIC DES Fasting, feasting | FIC DES The inheritance of loss | FIC DES Diamond dust |
Located in Gloria Grant Room - special collection of San Miguel de Allende authors.
Sophie and Matteo are young and in love, and share a dissatisfaction with their bourgeois Italian upbringing. Naturally, like so many other young Westerners in the sixties and seventies, they come to India. But the realities of life in an ashram ignite their differences; Sophie wants to be a tourist and go to Goa and eat shrimp, which Matteo scorns, seeking the 'real' India. Pragmatic Sophie is disillusioned by the hardships they encounter, while her husband, who yearns for spiritual fulfillment, sees only the purity of ascetic life, leading him to Mother, a charismatic guru. Trying to reclaim an ailing Matteo, Sophie embarks on a new journey in search of a different truth; that of Mother's mysterious past. Soon, she finds that the immortal has a history of her own; born in Cairo, she was once Laila, a dancer who toured the world before coming to Bombay to search for 'divine love'. What each of the three people discover, on their individual quests, is at its heart, that ancient truth: that wisdom is found in the journey itself.
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