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 …
In a vivid and magical story, this novel 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 purs…
Written while Tagore was managing his family's estates in the riverlands of Bengal in the 1890s, the thirty stories in this volume represent a wonderfully fruitful period in the life of this grear writer. Here he reflects on the cruel realities he saw around him, from child-marr…