Eight-year-old weaver Alu, a child of preternatural talent, embarks on a series of adventures that takes him from his home in an Indian village through the slums of Calcutta to Goa and across the sea to Africa.

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Amitav Ghosh was born in Calcutta in 1956. He grew up in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and India. He studied at the universities of Delhi and Oxford and published his first novel, The Circle of Reason in 1986. He has taught at a number of institutions, most recently Harvard, and written for many publications. He currently divides his time between Calcutta, Goa and Brooklyn.

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