Ananda, a 22-year old Bengali student of English Literature, is somewhat adrift in London. We follow him over the course of his day, through his feelings of alienation in the city and frustration with his university course. In doing so, we also meet his uncle, with his own (often comical) immigrant experience. Through these uncle-nephew wanderings, I enjoyed recognising plenty of references to Ulysses (such as a passage on the uncle's bowel movement!) and the Odyssey. Had this book been any longer, it may have grown tiring—it really is a book where nothing happens—but the prose was beautiful and the characters amusing and endearing.