The Circle of Reason

A 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 outrageousand 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.