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 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.
