Odysseus Abroad - Hardcover

Chaudhur IAmit

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670086193 ISBN 13: 9780670086191

Publisher: Penguin Books India, 2014

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Odysseus Abroad is typical Amit Chaudhuri material: unhurried, detailed, and quite poetic. Young Ananda Sen lives in London, and has an aspiration to make a mark as a poet. We see his routine life in London: as a student, as an outsider who wants to belong. His partner in his life in London is his mother's brother, Radhesh Nancy Majumdar. Radhesh is an eccentric character. He lives a loveless, sexless life; and bathes only two times a year. As Ananda tries to fit in, he also learns of his uncle's several eccentricities; and this uncle-nephew bonding part of the novel has been done with mentions of so much classical literature, classical music and poetry that that part has attained quite a poetic feel. There is not much in Odysseus Abroad in terms of a plot. But the telling of the events in the lives of this uncle-nephew duo, the beautiful language and the relaxed, sedate pace is what is worth looking out for. Odysseus Abroad is a short novel, but it is definitely not a novel to be read in a hurry --Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar Dec 6, 2014

About the Author

Amit Chaudhuri is the author of five novels, one work of non-fiction and a number of books of literary criticism. Among the many prizes he has won for his fiction are the Commonwealth Literature Prize, the Betty Trask Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Infosys Prize and the Sahitya Akademi Award. He is also a highly respected critic, a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Professor of Contemporary Literature at the University of East Anglia. Amit Chaudhuri lives in Kolkata and Norwich and is also an acclaimed musician.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Books India
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0670086193
• ISBN 13: 9780670086191
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256