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The Circle of Reason (Signed)
by Ghosh, Amitav
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- Paperback
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Northport, New York, United States
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About This Item
NY: Viking, 1986. Unrevised and Unpublished Proof; 8vo., blue wraps, softcover, 423 pages; author's first novel; inscribed: "To Leonard xxxxx Amitav Ghosh 1997" on the title page: sticker remnant on front wrap else a very good clean tight copy.
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.
Reviews
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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- Bookseller
- WellRead Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 35755
- Title
- The Circle of Reason (Signed)
- Author
- Ghosh, Amitav
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- NY: Viking, 1986
- Keywords
- Fiction, Signed, Proof, First Novel,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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