Mika Ross-Southall

Adrift in Berlin: Sojourn, by Amit Chaudhuri, reviewed

An Indian visiting professor wanders the streets of the city and becomes increasingly untethered from reality

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issue 20 August 2022
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  • Sojourn

    Amit Chaudhuri

    Faber, pp. 144, £14

Feelings of dislocation are at the heart of Amit Chaudhuri’s award-winning novels. Friend of My Youth (2017) followed a writer’s unsettling trip back to his childhood home in Bombay. Before that, Odysseus Abroad (2014) charted the day of a lonely English literature student from India as he meandered around London.

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