Friend of My Youth

'Amit Chaudhuri has, like Proust, perfected the art of the moment. [he] is a miniaturist, for whom tiny moments become radiant, and for whom the complexities of the fleeting mood uncurl onto the page like a leaf, a petal.' - Hilary Mantel

In Friend of My Youth , a novelist named Amit Chaudhuri visits his childhood home of Bombay. The city, reeling from the impact of the 2008 terrorist attacks, weighs heavily on Amit''s mind, as does the unexpected absence of his childhood friend Ramu, a drifting, opaque figure who is Amit''s last remaining connection to the city he once called home.

Autorentext
Amit Chaudhuri is the acclaimed author of six novels, including Odysseus Abroad and A Strange and Sublime Address, and two books of essays. He has been awarded the Commonwealth Literature Prize, the Betty Trask Award, the Encore Award, the LA Times Book Prize and the Sahitya Akademi Award, among other accolades. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a Fellow of the English Association, and was a judge of the Man Booker International Prize. Currently he is Professor of Contemporary Literature at the University of East Anglia.

Klappentext

A novelist who is also named Amit Chaudhuri visits his childhood home of Bombay - a setting reeling from the 2008 terrorist attacks - and finds himself preoccupied with the absence of his opaque and drifting childhood friend Ramu. Chaudhuri is a favourite of James Wood, Anne Enright and Jonathan Coe.

Zusammenfassung
The city, reeling from the impact of the 2008 terrorist attacks, weighs heavily on Amit's mind, as does the unexpected absence of his childhood friend Ramu, a drifting, opaque figure who is Amit's last remaining connection to the city he once called home.