Amit Chaudhuri’s Odysseus Abroad was my book of 2015. A fine, funny and subtle book, in a form in which, I think, he is a master. I will write more very soon, but for now here is a review by Neel Mukherjee in The Guardian which I had particularly liked.
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/feb/07/odysseus-abroad-amit-chaudhuri-review-audaciously-redraws-modernist-map