JOURNEY TO ITHACA.
London, Published by William Heinemann, 1995. First English Edition. 8vo. pp. ix + 309. Original green hardcover in complete decorated dust wrapper. tanning to the foredges else Very Good. Item #193550
Desai's exquisite, exotic 10th novel follows well-to-do European newlyweds who, in 1975, embark on a spiritual search in India. The husband, an Italian named Matteo, joins an ashram and becomes a fervent devotee of an aged, solitary guru known as ``the Mother.'' But to his skeptical German wife, Sophie, the Mother is not a fount of Eastern wisdom but a ``monster spider'' who catches ``silly flies'' like the deluded Matteo.
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