Dark Harbor: Building House and Home on an Enchanted Island

by Ved Mehta

When Ved Mehta was invited to Islesboro, a thirteen-mile-long island off the coast of Maine, he could not have imagined the far-reaching consequences of his visit. Seduced by the dream of setting roots in the New World, Mehta finds himself buying a fifteen-acre parcel of land in the rugged terrain of Dark Harbor. To build his house, he hires the architect Edward Larrabee Barnes, famous for designing, among other things, the IBM Building in New York. With echoes of Ibsen's Master-builder, Mehta details the folly of a blind man constructing a house on an island far removed from that other island, Manhattan, where he lives. Underlying this narrative is a richly allegorical tale about Mehta's own struggles as a writer and as a man. In the middle of it all, he falls in love with a much younger woman, whom he ultimately marries.

Genres: Memoir, Nonfiction

250 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2003

About the author

Indian-American journalist Ved Parkash Mehta

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ved_Mehta

Reviews

[Claudia]

If you've followed Ved Mehta's life in the New Yorker, you'll probably enjoy this.

[Sudhakar Gupta]

Ved Mehta is, undoubtedly, one of those authors that I'd keep coming back to.