“这本小说非常引人入胜，也很独特动人，可以说是乔杜里最棒的一部小说。”——卡里尔•菲利普斯
“《异国的奥德修斯》是乔杜里最棒的作品之一，充满智慧、魅力和人文精神，写得也很精妙。”——伊恩•杰克
“这篇动人的，普鲁斯特式的散文让我们看到了乔杜里写作中的扭曲、自嘲和滑稽。另外，他还在一个伦敦流量学子的身上添加了一些孟加拉人独有的敏感。《异国的奥德修斯》可以说是乔杜里最出色的小说。”——温蒂•多尼格
“乔杜里在小说中融入了些特殊的东西，不容错过。”——《每日邮报》
“《异国的奥德修斯》凭借其博学和幽默在现代小说中取得了一席之地。”——尼尔•莫克严，《卫报》
“瑞德斯非常希望能融入英国文化中，但这个过程又是非常滑稽的，像荷马和乔伊斯一样，乔杜里非常擅长描写食物。”——《先驱报》
“阿米特•乔杜里的这部小说非常优雅，智慧，阅读的过程也非常愉悦。”——《爱尔兰时代报》
“乔杜里对于印度人在80年度伦敦生活的经历描写得非常细致幽默，尤其是细节上的描述，非常惊人。”——《每日电讯报》
“小说引经据典，又交织了音乐和诗歌，将徘徊探索的感觉描绘得淋漓尽致。”——《观察者报》
“非常细致。”——《前途》
“小说交织了印度历史和印度移民在伦敦生活的描述，非常动人。”——《地铁》
‘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)
‘Witty, intimate and modern, Chaudhuri’s insight into the loneliness and excitement of our search for elsewhere had me under its spell. An unforgettable walk through London and other worlds by one of our most entertaining and artful writers.’
(Deborah Levy, author of Swimming Home)