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Odysseus abroad
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- Book Synopsis
- '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.
- About The Author
- Amit Chaudhuri is the author of eight novels, including Sojourn and Friend of My Youth, as well as four books of essays, three books of poems, two works of non-fiction, a collection of short stories and a critical study of D. H. Lawrence's poetry. He has received the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, the Encore Prize, the LA Times Book Prize, the James Tait Black Prize and the Sahitya Akademi Award, among other accolades. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. From 2006 until 2021, he was Professor of Contemporary Literature at the University of East Anglia and is currently Professor of Creative Writing and Director of the Centre for the Creative and the Critical, Ashoka University. He is a vocalist in the North Indian classical tradition and a composer and performer in a celebrated project that brings together different musical traditions.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9780571361519
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber, (15 September 2022)
- Number of Pages
- 224
- Weight
- 205 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 197 x 120 x 23 mm
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