by Anita Desai · Vintage · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099484943
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«The Zigzag Way» is the novel by Anita Desai, published by Vintage in paperback (192 pages, in English).
Eric, an insecure young writer, travels to Mexico after his girlfriend and feels overwhelmed by the sensory intensity of the place. Gradually he becomes fascinated by its mysteries and seeks his roots in a nearly deserted mining town, where Cornish miners worked a century ago. On the Day of the Dead, past and present converge.
Published in 2005, this work is written in English and falls within contemporary literary fiction.
For readers of literary fiction interested in stories set in Mexico and in family memory.
Anita Desai is an Indian novelist and the emerita John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times. She received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1978 for her novel Fire on the Mountain, from the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Literature. She won the Guardian Prize for The Village by the Sea (1983). Her other works include Cry, the Peacock, Voices in the City (1963), Fire on the Mountain (1977) and an anthology of short stories, Games at Twilight (1978). She is on the advisory board of the Lalit Kala Akademi and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, London. Since 2020 she has been a Companion of Literature.
