The Circle of Reason: A Novel
āļ.āļ. 2005 · HMH
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A New York Times Notable Book: A policeman chases a falsely accused man on a wild journey around the world in this âutterly involvingâ novel (The Sunday Times).
When eight-year-old Nachiketa Bose first arrives in the East Bengali village of Lalpukur, he receives the name Aluâpotatoâfor the size and shape of his extraordinary head. His uncle Balaram, the local schoolmaster and phrenology enthusiast, sends Alu to apprentice as a weaver, and the boy soon surpasses the skill of his master. But when a tragic bombing leaves Alu suspected of terrorism, he flees across India to Bombay and the Arabian Sea, followed all the way by the dogged policemanâand avid ornithologistâJyoti Das.
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From East Bengal to the Persian Gulf and North Africa, Amitav Ghoshâs wild and extraordinary novel âfollows in the footsteps of magical realists like Gabriel GarcÃa MÃĄrquez and Salman Rushdieâ (The New York Times Book Review).
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âA novelist of dazzling ingenuity.â âSan Francisco Chronicle
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âA Scheherezade effortlessly spinning tales within tales, the possessor of a strong narrative voice quite like no other.â âNewsday
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âGhoshâs writing soars, producing electric images.â âThe Baltimore Sun
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âA wonderful mix of magic and horror, wit and curiosity . . . Ghosh has really woven a fresh world for us to visit.â âProvidence Sunday Journal
When eight-year-old Nachiketa Bose first arrives in the East Bengali village of Lalpukur, he receives the name Aluâpotatoâfor the size and shape of his extraordinary head. His uncle Balaram, the local schoolmaster and phrenology enthusiast, sends Alu to apprentice as a weaver, and the boy soon surpasses the skill of his master. But when a tragic bombing leaves Alu suspected of terrorism, he flees across India to Bombay and the Arabian Sea, followed all the way by the dogged policemanâand avid ornithologistâJyoti Das.
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From East Bengal to the Persian Gulf and North Africa, Amitav Ghoshâs wild and extraordinary novel âfollows in the footsteps of magical realists like Gabriel GarcÃa MÃĄrquez and Salman Rushdieâ (The New York Times Book Review).
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âA novelist of dazzling ingenuity.â âSan Francisco Chronicle
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âA Scheherezade effortlessly spinning tales within tales, the possessor of a strong narrative voice quite like no other.â âNewsday
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âGhoshâs writing soars, producing electric images.â âThe Baltimore Sun
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âA wonderful mix of magic and horror, wit and curiosity . . . Ghosh has really woven a fresh world for us to visit.â âProvidence Sunday Journal
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Amitav Ghosh was born in Calcutta in 1956 and raised and educated in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Iran, Egypt, India, and the United Kingdom, where he received his PhD in social anthropology from Oxford. Acclaimed for fiction, travel writing, and journalism, his books include The Circle of Reason, The Shadow Lines, In an Antique Land, and Dancing in Cambodia. Ghosh has won Franceâs Prix MÃĐdici Etranger, Indiaâs prestigious Sahitya Akademi Award, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, and the Pushcart Prize. He now divides his time between Harvard University, where he is a visiting professor, and his homes in India and Brooklyn, New York.
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