Journey to Ithaca

By Anita Desai

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0679439005
• ISBN13: 9780679439004
• Release Date: August 1995
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 8.7"

Customer Reviews

Remarkable

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.

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.