Anita Desai’s always a writers of refugees,her latest work is set into a world of ghost revolve around Mexico.Her protagonist , Eric, a Harvard graduate student, follows his scientist girlfriend to Mexico, only to learn that he would not be welcome at her research site. At a lecture on the Huichol Indians of the Sierras, given by the mysterious, exotic Doña Vera, Eric suddenly realizes that the place names she mentions are those he once heard from his Cornish grandfather, who once worked in the Mexican silver mines.
In the second part of the novel, the author abandons Eric in order to explain how Doña Vera rose from prostitution to her present status as a wealthy grande dame.The third section of hit the past, this time telling the story of Eric’s grandfather and the other Cornish immigrants, who ended up either dying, being killed, or having to leave Mexico.
The novel ends in the present, when at a local celebration called “La Noche de los Muertos,” Eric encounters a ghost from the past and sees his own path into the future.
Desai’s odd title refers to the zigzagging path the miners followed when coming to the surface, a route that makes it easier for them to breathe as they ascend.A amazing dark side novel a light in the tunnel of dark mines.
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