Amitav Ghosh\'s extraordinary novel makes a claim on literary turf held by Gabriel Garc a M rquez and Salman Rushdie.
Alu flees his home, traveling through Bombay to the Persian Gulf to North Africa with a bird-watching policeman in pursuit..
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.
Amitav Ghosh\'s extraordinary novel makes a claim on literary turf held by Gabriel Garc a M rquez and Salman Rushdie