Odysseus abroad
By: Amit Chaudhuri
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton, an imprint of Penguin Books
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Haryana, India
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
ISBN-13: 9780670086191
Subjects: Young men; Fiction; East Indians; Unga män
Description: Amanda's uncle, Rangamma, is an eccentric bachelor who has taken early retirement and lives-off his pension in a squalid bedsit in Belsize Park. His habits are angular--he rarely bathes, and devours paranormal stories--and his personality combative. Ananda, by contrast, is fragile, nervous and romantic, Uncle and nephew circle around their past, walk the streets of London and find in each other an unspoken solace. A retelling of the story of Odysseus and Telemachus, Odysseus Abroad is a novel about a young man and an old man, about friendship, loneliness and love. Written in a voice at once tender and ribald, wry and unsentimental, this is Amit Chaudhuri's most extrordinary novel yet.--dust jacket.