Odysseus Abroad

In this highly acclaimed novel Amit Chaudhuri tells us the story of one unremarkable July day in 1980s’ London. Ananda student of poetry is lonely and somewhat fraught as he grapples with the big questions of literature. His uncle Radhesh a bachelor leading an early retired life in a Belsize Park bedsit is self-involved eccentric. On this day they find uncertain companionship as they circle around their past and take stock of their place in the city. Ananda and Radhesh both provide a foil to each other and yet remain apart as Chaudhuri shows why he is considered his generation’s best chronicler of acutely observed life. About the Author Amit Chaudhuri is the author of several award-winning novels and an internationally acclaimed musician and essayist. Freedom Song Three Novels received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction. His many international honors include the Commonwealth Writers Prize most recently he became the first recipient of the Infosys Prize for Humanities-Literary Studies.