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The zigzag way

Paperback • 2005 • English • 1. edition

The zigzag way

By Anita Desai

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About the book

Eric is an uncertain, awkward young man, a would-be writer, and a traveller in spite of himself. Happy to follow his more confident girlfriend to Mexico, he is overwhelmed with sensory overload, but gradually seduced - by the strangeness, the colour, the mysteries of an older world. He finds himself on 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. On the Dia de los M...Show more

Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary

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ISBN

9780099484943

Publisher

Vintage

Published year

2005

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

The zigzag way

Format

Paperback

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