Odysseus Abroad

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ISBN9780571361519
AuthorsAmit Chaudhuri
PublisherFaber & Faber
FormatPaperback
Number of pages256
Weight (kg)0.208
Publishing Date15/09/2022
Price (excl. tax)€17.83
Tax€1.07
Price (incl. tax)€18.90
Availability3 units in external warehouse

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''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.