Into the Dizzying Heights is the story of a great love, an unusual triangle and an enigmatic, solitary climber, Irena Besikova. It is also the tale of the confrontation of untamed nature and urban civilisation.
Marisa is a teenage girl full of questions that can't be answered, of fears and concerns about herself, her body and her feelings. At sixteen years old she doesn't yet know what love is, nor above all, who to give it to.
A worldly portrait of India depicted from street treading. It is full of tenderness, humour, pain and paradoxes. The result is a vital, literary rarity built equally from anger, love and inspiration.
When she loses her house keys our protagonist starts out on an astonishing adventure with the imagination as its only driver.


