This was the Booker winner earlier this year, and I wasn’t totally sure about it. It had received good reviews, but since it’s the story of an Indian boy (not Greek as maybe the title suggests) travelling across the ocean in the company of various animals including a Bengal tiger, I took the book to be some kind of allegory – perhaps a fable.
Well I can report back that this isn’t the case. I found the start of the book a little slow and all over the place, but the heart of the book was excellent.