Summary
Eric, the nominal engine of the plot (if plot there can be said to be), leaves Boston for Mexico on account of his girlfriend, Em (whose own studies are of a nebulous sort: "Her field was the forests of Yucatan where mosquitoes teemed and malaria was rife" - Anthropology? Archaeology? Epidemiology? Zoology?).
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Another Country
Another country Anita Desai's new novel contains many fine descriptions of nature, but the characters are of a ghostly thinness, writes CLAIRE MESSUD The Zigzag Way Anita Desai Chatto & Windus, 182pp, 12.99
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