Amitav Ghosh
Amitav Ghoshâ€™s extraordinary first novel makes a claim on literary turf held by Gabriel GarcÃ­a MÃ¡rquez 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.
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The Circle of Reason