ID | 011931 |
Call Number | 823.914/DES |
Title Proper | Zigzag way |
Language | ENG |
Author | Desai, Anita |
Publication | New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004. |
Description | 160p Black Spine |
Note | 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 and 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. Until Pancho Villa and revolution came to Mexico... |
Standard Number | 9780618619801 |
Price. Qualification | $13.00(Pb) |
Classification Number | 823.914 |
Key Words | Psychological fiction ; IBDP ; Americans - Mexico - Fiction ; Mexico - History - Fiction |