- Paperback: 159 pages
- Publisher: Mariner Books; Reprint edition (17 Feb 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0618619801
- ISBN-13: 978-0618619801
- Product Dimensions: 20.4 x 13.3 x 1.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
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"She is one of the best English language novelists of modern times."
--"Daily Telegraph"
"Desai has a gift of opening up a closed world and making it clearly visible."
--"Sunday Times" --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
--"Daily Telegraph"
"Desai has a gift of opening up a closed world and making it clearly visible."
--"Sunday Times" --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
Daily Telegraph
'She is one of the best English language novelists of modern times'
--This text refers to an alternate
Paperback
edition.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Having not read any of Desai's books before, but having heard good things about Desai, this book was a major disappointment.
The writing was predictable, the characters one dimensional and 'formulaic', the use of the Mexican setting and 'day of the dead' did nothing for the storyline and did not do the vibrant country and culture justice.
I may give other books of Desai's a go, but this one was not very good sadly.
The writing was predictable, the characters one dimensional and 'formulaic', the use of the Mexican setting and 'day of the dead' did nothing for the storyline and did not do the vibrant country and culture justice.
I may give other books of Desai's a go, but this one was not very good sadly.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
im happy i didnt buy this book and only got it from the libary because what i waste of money it would have been.
i was so disappointed by this book, it had no story, ok it had a story but it was extremely weak, in fact it was just pointless.
the characters were underdeveloped, it was like the auther had an idea, started writing the book but couldnt be bothered to put any depth into anything.
i was just reading the book purely to finish it because i dont like to leave a book unread just incase it does get better (not in this case)
i cant unrecommend this book enough
i was so disappointed by this book, it had no story, ok it had a story but it was extremely weak, in fact it was just pointless.
the characters were underdeveloped, it was like the auther had an idea, started writing the book but couldnt be bothered to put any depth into anything.
i was just reading the book purely to finish it because i dont like to leave a book unread just incase it does get better (not in this case)
i cant unrecommend this book enough
13 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Eric O'Brien is an uncertain and awkward young man, a would-be writer and a traveller in spite of himself. Happy to follow his more confident girlfriend Em to Mexico, he is overwhelmed with sensory overload and gradually seduced by the strangeness, the colour, the mysteries of an older world and its celebrations of the Dia de los Muertos. He finds himself in a curious quest for his own family in a ghost mining town, now barely inhabited, where almost a hundred years earlier young Cornish miners worked the rich seams in the earth. Until Pancho Villa and revolution came to Mexico.
A recording of this novel is available from BBC Audiobooks and Eleanor Bron's reading is truly breathtaking. Highly recommended.
A recording of this novel is available from BBC Audiobooks and Eleanor Bron's reading is truly breathtaking. Highly recommended.
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An interesting travel-novel set in Mexico
Anita Desai's style is precise and her characters are well-drawn. I found this book an interesting, slightly mysterious read, with supernatural elements blended in to the main... Read more
Published 19 months ago by Sue Brandon
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The Zigzag Way is a short novel about a young man who follows his scientist girl friend to Mexico, in order to get inspiration for his writing. Read more
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