# Friend Of My Youth

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- Book: [Friend Of My Youth](https://www.bookquiver.com/amit-chaudhuri/friend-of-my-youth) ([Friend Of My Youth.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/amit-chaudhuri/friend-of-my-youth.md))
- Authors: [Amit Chaudhuri](https://www.bookquiver.com/amit-chaudhuri)
- Publisher: india_penguin
- ISBN: 978-01-4344-258-5
- Pages: 120
- Published: 2018-05-01
- Language: en_IN
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

A writer arrives in Bombay on a book-related visit, and finds himself in search of the city he grew up in and barely knows, a city shaken to its core not long ago by the 2008 terrorist strikes-even as he takes for granted his errant local friend, Ramu. A six-foot-tall Kannadiga and one-time junkie who cannot reconcile himself to modern-day adult life, Ramu is an unlikely hero, Bombay incarnate; the writer is his mirrored counterpart in an extraordinary narrative about this city by the sea. Friend of My Youth is at once an unexpected exploration and a concentrated reminiscence woven around a series of visits to a city that was never really home; a commentary on the power of memory and the stubborn interference of childhood with adult life; a paean to the transformative power of friendship by one of our greatest living writers.