Bookverdict.com

This latest from Chaudhuri (Freedom Song; The Immortals) offers minimal plot: a 22-year-old homesick Indian literature student and aspiring poet wakes in his shabby London studio, practices his singing, meets his university tutor, delivers his rent, and visits his uncle Radhesh, with whom he shares an afternoon tea, a sweet shop foray, and a restaurant dinner before ambling home. The novel's pages, of course, contain much more: a single July 1985 London day (think Margaret Thatcher, hum "Karma Chamel...Log In or Sign Up to Read More