'A stunningly engaging novel where Naipaul meets Amis and Joyce visits Thatcher's England. Wittingly inventive, deeply moving, it's Chaudhuri's finest work to date.' -- Caryl Phillips 'A superb book, one of Chaudhuri's very best -- full of wit, charm and humanity, and so delicately and intricately written.' -- Ian Jack 'The stunning, Proustian prose that we have come to expect of Amit Chaudhuri is here in abundance, newly enhanced with surreal comedy and wry, self-mocking, often hilarious sex. Brilliantly he superimposes an intensely Bengali sensibility upon the picaresque experience of a London undergraduate. This is his wittiest and also his most profound book to date.' -- Wendy Doniger 'In the eccentric Radhesh, Chaudhuri gives us something special... a little gem not to be missed' Daily Mail 'Delightfully witty... luminously intelligent... Odysseus Abroad has placed itself, with erudition and playfulness, on the map of modernism' -- Neel Mukherjee Guardian 'Rhadesh's attempts to assimilate into English culture are funny and he clearly enjoys strange English customs... Like Homer and Joyce, Chaudhuri is good at writing about food' Herald 'very elegant... Amit Chaudhuri is a master of the slow-moving meditation, laced with precise exasperation... very funny... For all the jokes about literature this is a most literary novel. Yet it is witty, effortlessly fluid... a pleasure to read... sustained by a fierce intelligence' Irish Times 'Chaudhuri is incisive and humorous on the experience of moving from a former colony to Eighties London... Some small details particularly thrill' Daily Telegraph 'Richly allusive... It is not the novel's plot, but its rhythmic prose, interwoven with musical and poetical references, that most engages... a witty narrative filled with wandering and wondering' Observer 'Gentle, restrained' Prospect 'A beautifully written novel that weaves in Indian history with a fabulously observed portrait of 1980s migrant London' Metro 'Easily followed and lucidly expressed... Amit Chaudhuri is on top form' The Lady 'A brilliantly delicate London novel... an absolutely wonderful book' The Idler 'very funny' New Humanist

Amit Chaudhuri is the author of five critically acclaimed novels. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Professor of Contemporary Literature at the University of East Anglia. He has contributed fiction, poetry and reviews to numerous publications including the Guardian, the London Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement, The New Yorker and Granta. Amit lives in Calcutta and Norwich.