City of Ghosts

by Stoberock, Johanna

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New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2003. AR4 - Atmospheric and passionate, an exploration of obsession, friendship, and grief, City of Ghosts charts Isabel's journey through the blindness of new love to self-awareness and explores the disorientation that springs from giving oneself too fully to another person.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Book summary

The affectionate but rivalrous friendship between Anna and Isabel becomes fraught with tension when Isabel marries Anna's boyfriend and goes to live with him in Kathmandu, where he leads wilderness treks. A confrontation in the course of one of these expeditions is the climax of this novel, which is set vividly in Isabel's adopted country of Nepal.