The Circle of Reason

It has taken me forever to read this book and I struggled to finish it. I truly hate to say it because I love Amitav Ghosh and everything else I have read but I didn't enjoy this. Like his other novels the scenes are perfectly set but the chacaters though well rounded had no background and you were......more

This is a strange novel. The narrative is clean & taut. The characters are real, and there is abcolutely nothing fictitious about any of them (I have encountered people like them). The landscape against which these characters & events enact their unique drama of life, love, death, misery, hope and f......more

I wish I had read this book before I read all the others by Amitav Ghosh. It has all the characteristics one has come to expect of an Amitacv Ghosh novel - deep research, great narration with such level of detail that it feels like an impressionist painting, a significant item or thought, The Life o......more

Amitav Ghosh's first ever novel and his masterly grip on story-telling shows. The story is happenstance here mostly for me. The characters are so wonderfully sketched and with as much varied eccentricities as seen in real life. So we go through some cities and countries with an increasingly quickeni......more

I loved In an Antique Land, so I had very high expectations for this novel. I found it enjoyable but not nearly as excellent as I expected.......more