The circle of Reason
by Ghosh, Amitav
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- Paperback
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- Collectable - Good
- ISBN 10
- 0140133682
- ISBN 13
- 9780140133684
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About This Item
Penguin. Collectable - Good. 1990. First Printing. Soft Cover. 0140133682 (J193) .
Synopsis
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.
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On Apr 14 2014, CloggieDownunder said:
The Circle of Reason is the first novel by Indian author, Amitav Ghosh. The story of Nachiketa Bose, known throughout the narration as Alu because of his misshapen head, is related from his arrival at his uncle Balaram’s house in the Bengali town of Lalpukur, when he is orphaned at eight years old. A boy who becomes gifted at languages and a skilful weaver, a cascade of events leads to Alu’s flight across India, into the Middle East and across northern Africa, pursued by a tenacious policeman, Jyoti Das, under the pretext that he is a suspect in a terrorist incident. Ghosh gives the reader a rich cast of characters that are appealing and complex; even minor characters are allotted a potted history in their turn. The plot has quite a few twists, and Ghosh manages to fairly seamlessly include a village squabble, weaving, phrenology and physiognomy, a man obsessed with carbolic acid, the life of Louis Pasteur, a theory on queues, a comparison between communism and capitalism, a self-immolation, an attack with boiling oil, a building collapse, the Hindu epic Mahabharata and sewing machines. An amazing debut novel.
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- Title
- The circle of Reason
- Author
- Ghosh, Amitav
- Format/Binding
- Soft Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Collectable - Good
- Edition
- First Printing
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0140133682
- ISBN 13
- 9780140133684
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Place of Publication
- New York, N.y.
- Date Published
- 1990
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