The Circle of Reason – Amitav Ghosh
Set in both India and Africa, this is the story of three characters – an orphan, a police inspector and a madman – who try to find order in an increasingly chaotic world.
The plot is centred on a young Indian, Alu, with a large and bumpy head, but the majority of things that happen in the book happen to the people around him, now and in the past. Alu is orphaned and adopted by his uncle with a passion for determining people’s personalities by examining the shape of their heads.
The uncle gets caught up in a personal war with another man in the village, ultimately leading to chaos and death, when the police storms the village.
Alu flees across India and to Africa, where he has an Epiphany that money is the cause of all disease and creating a community revolting against the use of money. Once again the authorities comes to clash with the people around him, and the final part of the book takes place elsewhere, but I won’t reveal too much.
It’s definitely an original book, and the language is quite good, evoking a sense of reality.
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