Amit Chaudhuri

Odysseus Abroad Amit Chaudhuri

Publisher Marketing: It is 1985. Twenty-two-year-old Ananda has been in London for two years, practicing at being a poet. He's homesick, thinks of himself as an outsider, and yet he can't help feeling that there's something romantic, even poetic, in his isolation. His uncle, Radhesh, a magnificent failure who lives in genteel impoverishment and celibacy, has been in London for nearly three decades. Odysseus Abroad follows them on one of their weekly, familiar forays about town. The narrative surface has the sensual richness that has graced all of Amit Chaudhuri's work. But the great charm and depth of the novel reside in Ananda's far-ranging ruminations; in Radhesh's often artfully wielded idiosyncrasies; and in the spiky, needful, sometimes comical, yet ultimately loving connection between the two men. Review Citations: Library Journal Prepub Alert 11/15/2014 pg. 61 (EAN 9781101874516, Hardcover) Kirkus Reviews 02/01/2015 (EAN 9781101874516, Hardcover) - *Starred Review Publishers Weekly 02/09/2015 (EAN 9781101874516, Hardcover) - *Starred Review Booklist 04/01/2015 pg. 26 (EAN 9781101874516, Hardcover) - *Starred Review Library Journal 04/01/2015 pg. 72 (EAN 9781101874516, Hardcover) Contributor Bio:  Chaudhuri, Amit 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. He is a contributor to the London Review of Books, Granta, and The Times Literary Supplement.