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The Circle of Reason
Amitav Ghosh
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Description for The Circle of Reason
Paperback. A re-issue of the first novel from the internationally acclaimed prize-winning writer. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 34. Weight in Grams: 362.
A saga of flight and pursuit, this novel chronicles the adventures of Alu, a young weaver who is wrongly suspected of being a terrorist. Chased from Bengal to Bombay and on through the Persian Gulf to North Africa by a bird-watching police inspector, Alu encounters along the way a cast of characters as various and as colourful as the epithets with which the author adorns them. The reader is drawn into their lives by incidents tender and outrageous and all compellingly told. Ghosh is as natural a weaver of words as Alu is of cloth, deftly interlacing humour and wisdom to produce a narrative tapestry of surpassing beauty.
Product Details
Publisher
John Murray Press
Number of pages
512
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Weight
348g
Number of Pages
512
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781848544161
SKU
V9781848544161
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-10
About Amitav Ghosh
Amitav Ghosh was born in Calcutta in 1956. He grew up in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and India. He studied at the universities of Delhi and Oxford and published his first novel, The Circle of Reason in 1986. He has taught at a number of institutions, most recently Harvard, and written for many publications. He currently divides his time between Calcutta, Goa and Brooklyn.
Reviews for The Circle of Reason
Praise for The Circle of Reason
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More accessible than Salmon Rushdie, more Dickensian, full of sound and fury, and with a strong narrative
Lesley McDowell, Independent on Sunday
PRAISE FOR SEA OF POPPIES
'Sea of Poppies Boasts a varied collection of characters to love and hate, and provides wonderfully detailed descriptions of opium production ... utterly involving and piles on tension until the very last page'
Peter Parker, Sunday Times
'A glorious babel of a novel ... marvellously inventive ... utterly involving ... The next volume cannot come too soon'
Sunday Times
'An utterly involving book'
Sunday Times
'This is a panoramic adventure story, with a Dickensian energy and scope'
Sunday Telegraph
'Ghosh's narrative is enriched with a wealth of historical detail ... as well as intricate characterisation that makes interaction among the diverse group truly absorbing'
The Times
'There can be fewer more exciting settings for a novel than a sea-tossed sailing ship ... Ghosh piles detail upon detail in a rumbustical adventure'
The Times
'Ripping post-colonial yarn ... Ghosh spins a fine story with a quite irresistible flow, breathing exuberant life ... an absorbing vision'
Guardian
'A remarkably rich saga'
Observer
'Each scene is boldly drawn, but it is the sheer energy and verve of Amitav Ghosh's storytelling that binds this ambitious medley'
Daily Mail
This is a corker
Spectator
Ghosh turns the ship into something robustly, bawdily and indelibly real . . . a plot of Dickensian intricacy
New York Times
'A master of fiction'
Economist
'A richly drawn cast of characters ... gilded with expertly-mined historical detail'
Sunday Business Post
'The fantastic Anglo-Asian language they speak is infectious, and the sombre yet uncertain conclusion leaves one eager for the second novel in the trilogy'
Daily Telegraph
'A captivating cast ... Ghosh's saga is enriched with a blizzard of Laskari- and Hindi-derived words that add irrepressible energy to the narrative'
Metro
'Beautifully written, this totally absorbing novel will leave you eagerly awaiting a second instalment'
She Magazine
'...this first volume in a promise trilogy is a gem.'
Guardian
- -
More accessible than Salmon Rushdie, more Dickensian, full of sound and fury, and with a strong narrative
Lesley McDowell, Independent on Sunday
PRAISE FOR SEA OF POPPIES
'Sea of Poppies Boasts a varied collection of characters to love and hate, and provides wonderfully detailed descriptions of opium production ... utterly involving and piles on tension until the very last page'
Peter Parker, Sunday Times
'A glorious babel of a novel ... marvellously inventive ... utterly involving ... The next volume cannot come too soon'
Sunday Times
'An utterly involving book'
Sunday Times
'This is a panoramic adventure story, with a Dickensian energy and scope'
Sunday Telegraph
'Ghosh's narrative is enriched with a wealth of historical detail ... as well as intricate characterisation that makes interaction among the diverse group truly absorbing'
The Times
'There can be fewer more exciting settings for a novel than a sea-tossed sailing ship ... Ghosh piles detail upon detail in a rumbustical adventure'
The Times
'Ripping post-colonial yarn ... Ghosh spins a fine story with a quite irresistible flow, breathing exuberant life ... an absorbing vision'
Guardian
'A remarkably rich saga'
Observer
'Each scene is boldly drawn, but it is the sheer energy and verve of Amitav Ghosh's storytelling that binds this ambitious medley'
Daily Mail
This is a corker
Spectator
Ghosh turns the ship into something robustly, bawdily and indelibly real . . . a plot of Dickensian intricacy
New York Times
'A master of fiction'
Economist
'A richly drawn cast of characters ... gilded with expertly-mined historical detail'
Sunday Business Post
'The fantastic Anglo-Asian language they speak is infectious, and the sombre yet uncertain conclusion leaves one eager for the second novel in the trilogy'
Daily Telegraph
'A captivating cast ... Ghosh's saga is enriched with a blizzard of Laskari- and Hindi-derived words that add irrepressible energy to the narrative'
Metro
'Beautifully written, this totally absorbing novel will leave you eagerly awaiting a second instalment'
She Magazine
'...this first volume in a promise trilogy is a gem.'
Guardian