Odysseus abroad
by Amit Chaudhuri
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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.
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Odysseus abroad
2014, Hamish Hamilton, an imprint of Penguin Books
in English
0670086193 9780670086191
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"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 inveterate 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. [The novel] follows them on one of their weekly, familiar forays about town"--Amazon.com.
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