The Circle Of Reason
432 pages
|Published: 1 Jan 1986
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ISBN: 9780618329625
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Publication date: 3 May 2005
Description
Amitav Ghosh’s extraordinary first novel makes a claim on literary turf held by Gabriel García Márquez and Salman Rushdie. In a vivid and magical story, The Circle of Reason traces the misadventures of Alu, a young master weaver in a small Bengali village who is falsely accused of terrorism. Alu flees his home, traveling through Bombay to the Persian Gulf to North Africa with a bird-watching policeman in pursuit.