The Circle of Reason - Amitav Ghosh

Category: Literature, Novel
Language: English
Keywords: "North Africa" Bengal India Louis Pasteur Magical Realism Middle East Postcolonial Rabindranath Tagore René Vallery-Radot

Written by Amitav Ghosh
Read by Simon Vance
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Unabridged

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.

February 15 2011
14 hrs and 33 mins