The Circle Of Reason

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Medici Etranger Award Winner. Following the horn form of Indian classical music, Amitav Ghosh slowly builds the rhythm of The Circle of Reasons. The first part spans decades, the second part spans weeks, and the third part flies through the day like a scherzo. Ghosh’s debut novel centers on Alu, an orphan recruited by his adoptive father as a soldier in a crusade against the forces of myth and irrationality. They are about to be arrested on suspicion of terrorism, but a tragic accident forces Aru to flee his village. Pursued by an errant policeman, Alu manages to make his way across Kolkata to Goa, where he boards a fishing trawler transporting illegal immigrants to Africa. Tracing Alu’s journey across two continents, Circle of Reason is an extraordinary novel by one of India’s most celebrated English-language writers.

About the Author

Amitav Ghosh, born in Calcutta in 1956, grew up and was educated in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Iran, Egypt, India, and Great Britain, where he received his doctorate. Social Anthropology from Oxford. Critically acclaimed for his fiction, travelogue, and journalism, his books include The Ring of Reason, The Line of Shadows, The Ancient Land, and Cambodian Dance. His previous novel The Glass Castle was an international bestseller, selling over half a million copies in the UK. Recently published there, Hunger Tide has been translated and sold in twelve countries, and is also a bestseller abroad. Ghosh has won France’s Prix Medici Etranger, India’s 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 home in India and Brooklyn, New York.

Indian Writing
Literature & Fiction
9780143066507 ISBN
Amitav Ghosh Book Author