A funny, tender, utterly beguiling story about a woman's search for happiness.
Klappentext
It's 3 a. m. and Elizabeth Gilbert is sobbing on the bathroom floor. She's in her thirties, she has a husband, a house, they're trying for a baby - and she doesn't want any of it. A bitter divorce and a turbulent love affair later, she emerges battered and bewildered and realises it is time to pursue her own journey in search of three things she has been missing: pleasure, devotion and balance. So she travels to Rome, where she learns Italian from handsome, brown-eyed identical twins and gains twenty-five pounds, an ashram in India, where she finds that enlightenment entails getting up in the middle of the night to scrub the temple floor, and Bali where a toothless medicine man of indeterminate age offers her a new path to peace: simply sit still and smile. And slowly happiness begins to creep up on her.
Biografie
Mit ihrer Sammlung von Kurzgeschichten, die als 'New York Times Notable Book' ausgezeichnet wurde, hat Elizabeth Gilbert bereits 1998 für Aufsehen gesorgt. Sie gewann zahlreiche literarische Preise und war nominiert für den hochangesehenen PEN/Hemingway Award. Für ihre Arbeit als Journalistin wurde sie 1999 für den National Magazin Award nominiert. Sie schreibt regelmäßig für GQ, Harper's Bazaar und The New York Times Magazine. Sie lebt in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
