β Scribed by Amitav Ghosh
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Amitav Ghosh's extraordinary first novel makes a claim on literary turf held by Gabriel GarcΓa MΓ‘rquez 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.
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