The Circle of ReasonA saga of flight and pursuit, this novel chronicles the adventures of Alu, a young master 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 colorful 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 humor and wisdom to produce a narrative tapestry of surpassing beauty. |
Contents
Section 1 | 3 |
Section 2 | 35 |
Section 3 | 59 |
Section 4 | 87 |
Section 5 | 102 |
Section 6 | 123 |
Section 7 | 133 |
Section 8 | 150 |
Section 13 | 266 |
Section 14 | 290 |
Section 15 | 306 |
Section 16 | 320 |
Section 17 | 326 |
Section 18 | 334 |
Section 19 | 344 |
Section 20 | 353 |
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Abu Fahl al-Ghazira Alu's anyway arms asked Balaram Balaram-babu bamboo began Bhudeb Roy Bhudeb-babu Bolai-da Bose Boss C. V. Raman Calcutta carbolic carbolic acid Chitrangada Chunni cloth courtyard crowd Dantu date palms door Dr Mishra Dubey eyes face Fahmy's feet Forid Mian Gopal hair Hajj Fahmy hands happened head heard Isma'il Jai Lal jamdani Jeevanbhai Jyoti Jyoti Das Karthamma knew Kulfi Lalpukur later laughed leant listen looked loom Malik Mast Ram Mawali Maya morning Naboganj never night Nury once palms Parboti-debi Pasteur police Presidency College Professor Samuel pulled pushed Rakesh Rakhal Roy's sari Shombhu Debnath shook shoulders shouted sitting smiled soon Souq Star staring stood stopped straight suddenly talk tell There's thing told took Toru-debi turned Verma village voice waiting watched What's whispered whole worry Zaghloul Zindi