Journey to Ithaca
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Book Overview
A stirring and profound novel of spiritual quests and emotional exile. Young and in love, Sophie and Matteo share a dissatisfaction with their bourgeois upbringing and a yearning for spiritual fulfillment that brings them, like so many others, to India. But the realities of life on an ashram magnify the lovers' differences. Pragmatic Sophie is horrified and disillusioned by the poverty and hardships they encounter; Matteo, a dreamer, sees only the...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0140258183
ISBN13:9780140258189
Release Date:December 1996
Publisher:Penguin Books
Length:336 Pages
Weight:0.55 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 5.0" x 7.7"
Customer Reviews
2 ratings
Remarkable
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 19 years ago
Matteo and Sophie travel to India where he searches for spiritual enlightenment while she sulks in boredom and disdain. Desai does a remarkable job of capturing the spirit of the seeker, the hypocrisy of those who prey upon them, the disappointment and destruction that seeking can bring, the relief of finding one's true teacher, and the escstasy of meeting god. A truly rich, beautiful, and compelling story that makes the reader loathe to put the book down. If Desai's other novels are on par with this one (and I intend to find out), her books will be filling my shelves.
Gorgeous.
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 22 years ago
Desai is a writer who repays re-reading. This book is subtle and textured. The author plays marvelously with time and consciousness in ways reminiscent of Virginia Woolf, brought up to date.
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