The Zigzag Way Anita Desai by Anita Desai 9780099472087, 0099472082 instant download after payment.

In her long, distinguished career, Anita Desai has focused her capacious vision on questions of culture and identity. Her mesmerizing new novel, The Zigzag Way, brings her fiction to an unexpected region of the world: mythical, lush Mexico. In this seductive landscape, a young American stumbles upon an unlikely path to self-discovery.

“Almost unbearably suspenseful.”  - The Boston Globe

Eric is a newly minted historian just out of graduate school, unsure of his past choices and future options. With no clear direction, he follows his lover, Em, when she travels to the Yucatan for her scientific research, but he ends up alone in this foreign place. And so he pursues his own private quest, tracing his family's history to a Mexican ghost town, where, a hundred years earlier, young Cornish miners toiled to the death. With vivid sympathy, Anita Desai conjures the struggles of Eric's grandparents and their community.

“Long before Jhumpa Lahiri... long before Monica Ali... another novelist was offering us exquisitely detailed portraits of bodies in transit [and] classes in the art of sly and sensuous fiction... Anita Desai was a global, migrant writer before such a thing was fashionable.”   -  Time 

Haunting and atmospheric, with splashes of exuberant colour and darker violence, The Zigzag Way is “a beautifully rendered combination of history, folklore, and modern fiction” (Entertainment Weekly), from a Booker Prize finalist.