The Circle of Reason

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.

• Author
• Amitav Ghosh

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 432

• Publisher
• Mariner Books

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780618329625

• Genres
• fiction, india, literature, unfinished, contemporary, novels, international

• Release date
• 2005