- Gebundene Ausgabe: 192 Seiten
- Verlag: Chatto & Windus (4. Oktober 2004)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0701177438
- ISBN-13: 978-0701177430
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 13,3 x 1,9 x 20,3 cm
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 2.125.410 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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Cultural collisions fascinate Desai, a fiction writer of transfixing acuity who has written most often of East Indian immigrants in the U.S and who now, in her fourteenth book, draws on her intimacy with Mexico. Eric, a psychically adrift young American, travels to Mexico after learning, to his surprise, that his father was born there. Open to serendipity and preternaturally receptive to the land and its ghosts, he is drawn to Dona Vera, a gold digger with a secret European past who has set herself up on a remote estate as an expert on the Huichol Indians and their sacred use of peyote. As Eric resurrects the dramatic, even otherworldly story of his Cornish miner grandfather and intrepid grandmother, Desai, with supreme narrative dexterity and poetic distillation, ponders the forces that allowed marauding foreign tycoons to build silver mines in Mexico worked by demoralized Cornish immigrants and brutalized Indians. Infused with history, compassion, and a sense of wonder, Desai's heightened and affecting novel is ravishing in both its specificity and its universality. Donna Seaman
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Pressestimmen
“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
From the Trade Paperback edition.
—Daily Telegraph
“Desai has a gift of opening up a closed world and making it clearly visible.”
—Sunday Times
From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Brisk, entertaining, evocative
15. November 2004
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
THE ZIGZAG WAY by Anita Desai is a success in several ways, most notably in delivering to the reader a Mexico of vivid sights, sounds and smells. The feel of the place -- its mountains, animals, flowers, foods -- is captured with a keen eye (and ear, and nose). Secondly, the structure, going back and forth in time and making connections along the way, is irresistible. Where she has not succeeded so well is in creating characters that achieve verisimilitude. The sometimes stilted dialogue doesn't help. And the story itself, for all its exoticism, doesn't rise much beyond the mundane. Still, THE ZIGZAG WAY is a quick, entertaining read worthly of a recommendation, though not an emphatic one.
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Disappointing!
10. Februar 2010
Format:Taschenbuch
This book reads more like a tourist guide than a novel. It seems as if the author has visited Mexico and wants to record her reactions to it rather than create artistically structured fiction. Characters are unconvincing, sentences are long and unstructured, and the narrative style shows little skill. A forgetable novel.
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Mediocre
5. Dezember 2006
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
"The Zigzag Way" is a short book, almost novella size, without a great deal of character development. It does have a shifting cast of characters unified by the willingness to change the familiar for something new, Em being the exception, and also the one character with no real connection to Mexico. At the end the protagonist, unlike his father, still has not found what that something new will be. For a slim book, there was an historical dimension which was valuable, but it almost seems like Desai was also seeking a spiritual experience in Mexico which turned out to be disappointing. The concluding scene has some emotional power, but just doesn't add up to anything really significant. While Desai can create fine metaphors, there were times I felt they were inserted when no metaphor was called for, so that they simply brought attention to themselves. On a personal note, I was better able to visualize Em because I had recently seen the movie "Kinky Boots", and pictured the fiancée.
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