- Hardcover: 176 pages
- Publisher: London, United Kingdom: Chatto & Windus; 1st Edition edition
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0618042156
- ISBN-13: 978-0618042159
- Product Dimensions: 20.3 x 14.2 x 2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 340 g
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3.4 out of 5 stars (9 customer reviews)
8 of 10 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Brisk, entertaining, evocative, Nov 14 2004
By Reader 100 - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Zigzag Way (Hardcover)
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.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars
Disappointing!, Feb 10 2010
By Margaret P. Joseph - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Zigzag Way (Paperback)
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.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Mediocre, Dec 5 2006
By algo41 "algo41" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Zigzag Way (Hardcover)
"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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