Review on Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

Review on ‘Eat Pray Love’ –Elizabeth Gilbert

This non-fiction as it's simply named takes us through three phases of eat, pray and love. Through the author’s visit to three important destinations around the world she so poignantly takes us along with her journey of self discovery. The author begins the story with her own divorce and her reasons for travel to Italy ,India and Bali .

The style is narrative and she takes the reader so well through her journey that anyone would relate with most of the instances she experiences so as to how she slowly gets out of her depression and begins every thing fresh starting with her travel.

She goes to Italy just to learn the most beautiful language ‘italian’ and relish Italian food all day. The way she describes Italian (the most pleasant sounding language as pronounced by the author),even the reader would feel inspired to try learning it. She practices yoga ardently everyday and seems to have taken after an Indian yogic guru which is the reason for her to visit the guru’s(who is unnamed to avoid unsolicited publicity) ashram in Maharashtra, later in India which is her second destination. The spiritual experience is so vividly explained in the book of how frustrating it is in the beginning to get accustomed to the strict routine of the ashram and to learn the technique of meditation even though she so badly wants to be a part of the experience. Especially being an Indian reader one would feel when will one get their call to follow their spiritual journey the same way and experience nirvana as experienced and described by the author so much in detail. And this is where she completely recovers from her past and is finally ready to move on with her life.

The final destination of her journey is Bali in Indonesia where her sole reason seems to be to visit a ‘medicine man’ in the village who she has meet some years ago during her previous visit to the place and who had predicted she would visit again Bali and see him too. The love journey begins from now on when she meets this Brazilian, divorced business man in Bali. The local lady doctor  with her ten year old daughter whom she helps to raise money for building her own house later on after her visit, the Indonesian American immigrant who is forced to come back to Bali away from his American wife due to immigration problems , her companion Richard who helps to her to meditate in the ashram in India and many such characters through out the book in each country makes it come alive and tries to create a universal bonding among people that whatever maybe their backgrounds or residence still we are all humans at the end of the day and it's so easy to make friends with anyone around the globe.

Finally she returns to America having become completely whole in terms of mind and heart again after tackling all her fears and doubts one by one through this self discovering journey she had undertaken. This also serves as a good travel experience for the reader as it describes the most interesting places and cuisines to be tasted in Italy and even in Bali and most importantly the people &culture of these places.

Being a best seller by itself  it’s needless to stay it would do well to have this in your book collection.

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