India, Sept. 26 -- Chateau Rouge, Amit Chaudhuri's latest work is a meditative and fragmentary novel about a writer invited to a residency in Paris. There, he sublets an apartment in the Chateau Rouge area, which bears little resemblance to his idea of the city. The experience eventually leads him to a newly expansive attitude toward the place with his disquiet translating into a way of seeking and experiencing a truer, more unlikely Paris. Chateau Rouge floats freely through Paris, exploring tangents, diversions, side streets and alleyways, and creeps into new spaces and remote angles, to open up fresh ground and appraise the city, the experience of travel, and otherness, and the idea of the novel itself....