Journey to Ithaca
Condition: Used
Good: The majority of pages are undamaged with minimal creasing. No missing pages.
Cover has a crease.
Author: Anita Desai
Format: softcover Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Publication Year: 1996 Topic: --
Special Attributes: -- Language: English
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Synopsis
Sophie and Matteo, in search of a spiritual dimension to their conventional middle-class
lives, travel to an ashram in India where Matteo falls under the influence of a guru known
only as the Mother. Sophie is resentful of her hold over Matteo, and tries to find out the
truth about where the Mother came from and who she really is. The relationship between the
two is threatened until, chastened by their experiences, they remember why they came to
India in the first place--to acquire wisdom.
Publisher's Note
A spiritual quest takes Sophie and Matteo to India, where Matteo is drawn toward the Mother,
a charismatic and mysterious guru. In an effort to reclaim her lover, Sophie embarks on her
own journey for the truth about the Mother's past and finds that wisdom is found in the journey
itself, not at its destination.
Young and in love, Sophie and Matteo share a dissatisfaction with their bourgeois upbringing
and a yearning for spiritual fulfillment that brings them, like so many others, to India.
But the realities of life on an ashram magnify the lovers' differences. Pragmatic Sophie is
horrified and disillusioned by the poverty and hardships they encounter; Matteo, a dreamer,
sees only the purity of ascetic life. Eventually his personal search leads him away from Sophie
and toward the Mother, a charismatic guru. In an effort to reclaim Matteo, Sophie embarks on
her own journey for the truth about the Mother's mysterious past. What these three people
discover is at the heart of this masterful novel--that wisdom is found in the journey itself,
and not at its destination.
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