THE CIRCLE OF REASON

The Circle of Reason, Amitav Ghosh’s debut novel, is a magical and picaresque saga following a young master weaver named Alu across continents. Wrongly accused of terrorism in his Bengali village, Alu flees India, traveling through the Persian Gulf and on to North Africa, all while being pursued by a persistent police inspector. A wild adventure filled with eccentric characters, the novel weaves together threads of myth, modernity, rationality, and displacement in a vivid, multilayered narrative.