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This is not a review on the film but the book which the film was based under the same title.
The full title of the book Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia is a 2006 memoir by an American author Elizabeth Gilbert about what she discovered along her journey to these three countries.
At 32 years old, Elizabeth Gilbert had everything in her life; a degree in Political Science, a home, a husband and a successful career as a writer. However, she was unhappy in her marriage and often spent the night crying on her bathroom floor. In the midst of an affair, she separated from her husband and initiated a divorce, which he contested. The affair continued for some time but did not work out, leaving her devastated and alone.
While writing an article on yoga vacations in Bali, she met a ninth-generation medicine man who told her she would come back and study with him. After finalizing her difficult divorce, she spent the next year traveling around the world. She spent four months in Italy, eating and enjoying life (Eat). She spent four months in India, finding her spirituality (Pray). She ended the year in Bali, Indonesia, looking for "balance" of the two and found love (Love) in the form of a dashing Brazilian factory owner.
Gilbert paid for the trip with an advance she received on the book she already planned to write, and "Eat, Pray, Love" is the result. If there is any book that can make you feel love, romance, happy, spiritual, calm, angry and sad; this IS the book. While I was reading it, I find myself feeling angry at her ex-husband over the conditions he made during the divorce period, laughing out loud at what the people she met said to her and having tears when she helped a Balinese woman to own a house.
Gilbert paid for the trip with an advance she received on the book she already planned to write, and "Eat, Pray, Love" is the result. If there is any book that can make you feel love, romance, happy, spiritual, calm, angry and sad; this IS the book. While I was reading it, I find myself feeling angry at her ex-husband over the conditions he made during the divorce period, laughing out loud at what the people she met said to her and having tears when she helped a Balinese woman to own a house.
The book has been made into a movie starring Julia Roberts as Elizabeth Gilbert which will be released here on 30th September 2010 according to the GSC (Golden Screen Cinemas) website.
445 pages
RM25.90 (Original price: RM37.50, Save RM11.60)
Publisher: Penguin
5th Anniversary Bookfest, KL Convention Centre
