The zigzag way
By: Anita Desai.
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Published: 2004
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 182
Description: Eric, a would-be writer, travels to Mexico with his girlfriend where he searches for the truth about his family's past in a ghost mining town. Along the way, he encounters Dona Vera, widow of a mining baron, who has a mysterious past of her own.