Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia

Elizabeth Gilbert

Jan 2007 · Sold by Penguin

About this eBook

One of the most iconic, beloved, and bestselling books of our time from the bestselling author of City of Girls and Big Magic, Elizabeth Gilbert.

Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat Pray Love touched the world and changed countless lives, inspiring and empowering millions of readers to search for their own best selves. Now, this beloved and iconic book returns in a beautiful 10th anniversary edition, complete with an updated introduction from the author, to launch a whole new generation of fans.
 
In her early thirties, Elizabeth Gilbert had everything a modern American woman was supposed to want—husband, country home, successful career—but instead of feeling happy and fulfilled, she was consumed by panic and confusion. This wise and rapturous book is the story of how she left behind all these outward marks of success, and set out to explore three different aspects of her nature, against the backdrop of three different cultures: pleasure in Italy, devotion in India, and on the Indonesian island of Bali, a balance between worldly enjoyment and divine transcendence.

Ratings and reviews

It's not just the book about traveling. When I recommended it from my friend who are seeking for her love, I considered it as a usual romance story or a adventurous journey. I saw so many traveling books that draw attention from the readers. Of course it has many attractions of Italy, India, and Bali as tour places, this book did go beyond my expectation. The authors was writing a certain period of her life in details, giving several things to think about which anyone would worrry one day. Love, study, religion, and myself.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I didn't like the first part where she was moaning over her marriage or the relationship with DAvid. If its that bad get the hell out of doge and go find yourself. Those where my thoughts anyway but the sections on her travels and philosophy about italy and starting to enjoy who she was on her own with out a guy was great. I found the book over all to be humorously insightful. It also gave me some aha moments of my own. I would recomend this to anyone coming out of a relationship to read and experience.

Enjoyable read. Couldn't decide if I liked the author or not. Admire her adventurous desire to go places, meet people, have new experiences. But also blown away by the seemingly directionless quality of her life, and almost frantic desire to have someone show her "the way". Gullible and naive in the extreme: in dealing with situations, life, people. Throughout, wanted to slap her up side the head and tell her to grow up, snap out of it! Ah, well. That's what made the book interesting. My horror at an uncontained life. She's a good writer and written a good story.

About the author

Elizabeth Gilbert is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Big Magic, Eat Pray Love, and The Signature of All Things, as well as several other internationally bestselling books of fiction and nonfiction. She has been a finalist for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the PEN/Hemingway Award. Her latest novel, City of Girls, comes out in June, 2019.