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The Circle of Reason
por Amitav Ghosh
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Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
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London: Hamish Hamilton, 1986. First Edition . First UK Edition. Uncorrected Proof. Fine in blue wraps. Signed and inscribed by the author on the title page. This novel won the Prix Medicis award in France.
Sinopse
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.
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Em Apr 14 2014, CloggieDownunder disse:
The Circle of Reason is the first novel by Indian author, Amitav Ghosh. The story of Nachiketa Bose, known throughout the narration as Alu because of his misshapen head, is related from his arrival at his uncle Balaram’s house in the Bengali town of Lalpukur, when he is orphaned at eight years old. A boy who becomes gifted at languages and a skilful weaver, a cascade of events leads to Alu’s flight across India, into the Middle East and across northern Africa, pursued by a tenacious policeman, Jyoti Das, under the pretext that he is a suspect in a terrorist incident. Ghosh gives the reader a rich cast of characters that are appealing and complex; even minor characters are allotted a potted history in their turn. The plot has quite a few twists, and Ghosh manages to fairly seamlessly include a village squabble, weaving, phrenology and physiognomy, a man obsessed with carbolic acid, the life of Louis Pasteur, a theory on queues, a comparison between communism and capitalism, a self-immolation, an attack with boiling oil, a building collapse, the Hindu epic Mahabharata and sewing machines. An amazing debut novel.
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Detalhes
- Livreiro
- MDS Books
(CA)
- Estoque do vendedor nº
- 000488
- Título
- The Circle of Reason
- Autor
- Amitav Ghosh
- Estado do livro
- Usado
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
- Edição
- First Edition
- Encadernação
- Brochura
- Editorial
- Hamish Hamilton
- Local de publicação
- London
- Data de publicação
- 1986
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MDS Books
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Mississauga, Ontario
Sobre MDS Books
Modern First Editions, Fiction, Poetry.
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- Uncorrected Proof
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- First Edition
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- Fine
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- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
