Odysseus Abroad
About this book
'Delightfully witty . . . Luminously intelligent . . .
Odysseus Abroad has placed itself, with erudition and playfulness, on the map of modernism.'
Guardian
1985: twenty-two year old Ananda is a student adrift in Thatcher's Britain, homesick and isolated. His eccentric uncle, Radhesh, is a magnificent failure and an eccentric virgin who has lived in genteel impoverishment in Hampstead for nearly three decades.
Over the course of one day,
Odysseus Abroad follows the two isolated men on one of their weekly forays, gradually revealing the background to the two men's lives with deft precision and humour as they traverse London together, circling around their respective pasts and futures, and finding in one another an unspoken solace.
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Table of contents
- Landing Page
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Epigraphs
- Contents
- 1: Bloody Suitors!
- 2: Telemachus and Nestor (and Manny-loss)
- 3: Eumaeus
- 4: Uncle and Nephew
- 5: Heading for Town
- 6: Ithaca
- Acknowledgements
- About the Author
- Praise for Amit Chaudhuri
- By the Same Author
- Copyright
