Looking for Maya

Author: Atima Srivastava
Publisher: Penguin
Year: 1999
Language: English
Pages: 220
ISBN/UPC (if available): 0140288090

Description

Exploring themes of love, passion, friendship and the ambiguities of cultural identity, this' Looking for Maya' is an acutely observed and moving novel.

Mira is a young woman fresh out of university and set to embark on a brilliant career. She is bright, ambitious, hungry for life and dangerously nanve. When her boyfriend takes off for the summer Mira is left alone in London where she falls into the orbit of Amrit, older, sophisticated, a man accustomed to calling the tune. Both have a great deal to learn and to lose.