Committed: A Sceptic Makes Peace with Marriage

Elizabeth Gilbert is the author of a short story collection, Pilgrims (a finalist for the Pen/Hemmingway Award) and a book of non fiction, The Last American Man (nominated for the National Book Award and a New York Times Notable Book for 2002). She is a writer-at-large for American GQ where she has received two National Magazine Award nominations for feature writing. Her most recent book, Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India & Indonesia is an international bestseller. Elizabeth Gilbert lives in New Jersey. The audio edition, published in November 2008, is read by the author.

The Last American Man, published by Bloomsbury in January 2009, and rereleased in paperback in August 2009, is an unforgettable adventure story of an irrepressible life lived to the extreme. Stern Men, re-issued by Bloomsbury in March 2009, is her debut novel and Pilgrims, also re-issued in March 2009, is a collection of short stories of memorable individuals pursuing their own American pilgrimage

The eagerly awaited sequel to the astonishing international bestseller Eat, Pray, Love

At the end of her bestselling memoir Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert fell in love with Felipe – a Brazilian-born man of Australian citizenship who’d been living in Indonesia when they met. Resettling in America, the couple swore eternal fidelity to each other, but also swore to never, ever, under any circumstances get legally married. (Both survivors of difficult divorces. Enough said.) But providence intervened one day in the form of the U.S. government, who – after unexpectedly detaining Felipe at an American border crossing – gave the couple a choice: they could either get married, or Felipe would never be allowed to enter the country again.

Having been effectively sentenced to wed, Gilbert tackled her fears of marriage by delving completely into this topic, trying with all her might to discover (through historical research, interviews and much personal reflection) what this stubbornly enduring old institution actually is. The result is Committed – a witty and intelligent contemplation of marriage that debunks myths, unthreads fears and suggests that sometimes even the most romantic of souls must trade in her amorous fantasies for the humbling responsibility of adulthood. Gilbert’s memoir – destined to become a cherished handbook for any thinking person hovering on the verge of marriage – is ultimately a clear-eyed celebration of love, with all the complexity and consequence that real love, in the real world, actually entails.
ISBN: 9781408805763
Published by: Penguin Books India
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