A saga of flight and pursuit, this novel chronicles the adventures of Alu, a young weaver who is wrongly suspected of being a terrorist. Chased from Bengal to Bombay and on through the Persian Gulf to North Africa by a bird-watching police inspector, Alu encounters along the way a cast of characters as various and as colourful as the epithets with which the author adorns them. The reader is drawn into their lives by incidents tender and outrageous and all compellingly told. Ghosh is as natural a weaver of words as Alu is of cloth, deftly interlacing humour and wisdom to produce a narrative tapestry of surpassing beauty.
Les mer
A re-issue of the first novel from the internationally acclaimed prize-winning writer.
Praise for The Circle of Reason
Praise for The Circle of Reason - - -More accessible than Salmon Rushdie, more Dickensian, full of sound and fury, and with a strong narrative - Lesley McDowell, Independent on SundayPRAISE FOR SEA OF POPPIES - ******Sea of Poppies Boasts a varied collection of characters to love and hate, and provides wonderfully detailed descriptions of opium production ... utterly involving and piles on tension until the very last page - Peter Parker, Sunday TimesA glorious babel of a novel ... marvellously inventive ... utterly involving ... The next volume cannot come too soon - Sunday TimesAn utterly involving book - Sunday TimesThis is a panoramic adventure story, with a Dickensian energy and scope - Sunday TelegraphGhosh's narrative is enriched with a wealth of historical detail ... as well as intricate characterisation that makes interaction among the diverse group truly absorbing - The Times
Les mer
A re-issue of the first novel from the internationally acclaimed prize-winning writer.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781848544161
Publisert
2011
Utgiver
Vendor
John Murray Publishers Ltd
Vekt
409 gr
Høyde
196 mm
Bredde
130 mm
Dybde
36 mm
Aldersnivå
00, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
512

Forfatter

Biographical note

Amitav Ghosh was born in Calcutta in 1956. He grew up in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and India. He studied at the universities of Delhi and Oxford and published his first novel, The Circle of Reason in 1986. He has taught at a number of institutions, most recently Harvard, and written for many publications. He currently divides his time between Calcutta, Goa and Brooklyn.