- Fiction, East Indians, Weavers, Fugitives from justice
In a vivid and magical story, this novel 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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Contemporary, grave, plot-driven and earnest.
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- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- earnestironic
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Amitav Ghosh, Simon Vance, Christiane Besse
- First published
- 1986
- Pages
- 432
- Publisher
- Brilliance Audio, John Murray Publishers, Houghton Mifflin
- Editions
- 20
- Language
- Spanish, French, German, English
- ISBN
- 9781848544222
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