'beautifully drawn...a pleasant read'.
* Tribune *
'The story feels quiet and polite but it resonates. Superb.'
* Evening Standard *
'Chaudhuri plunders Ulysses and The Odyssey, joyfully borrowing from both iconic Western texts to create something fresh and new.'
* Sunday Herald *
'Intelligent and funny'
* London Review of Books *
'very funny'
* New Humanist *
'A brilliantly delicate London novel... an absolutely wonderful book'
* The Idler *
'Easily followed and lucidly expressed... Amit Chaudhuri is on top form'
* The Lady *
'A beautifully written novel that weaves in Indian history with a fabulously observed portrait of 1980s migrant London'
* Metro *
'Gentle, restrained'
* Prospect *
'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 *
'Chaudhuri is incisive and humorous on the experience of moving from a former colony to Eighties London... Some small details particularly thrill'
* Daily Telegraph *
'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 *
'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 *
'Delightfully witty... luminously intelligent... Odysseus Abroad has placed itself, with erudition and playfulness, on the map of modernism'
-- Neel Mukherjee * Guardian *
'In the eccentric Radhesh, Chaudhuri gives us something special... a little gem not to be missed'
* Daily Mail *
'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
