num_pages: 432
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.
language: English
title: The Circle Of Reason
titlecomplete: The Circle Of Reason
genres: Indian Literature, India, Asia, Contemporary, Novels, Historical Fiction, Literature, Unfinished, Literary Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 1480
awards: awardedAt: 631180800000
name: Prix Médicis Etranger
publisher: Harper Perennial