The Home and the World
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
The Home and the World
By (Author) Rabindranath Tagore
Edited by William Radice
Introduction by Anita Desai
Translated by Surendranath Tagore
Penguin Books Ltd
Penguin Classics
7th April 2005
31st March 2005
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
891.4485
Physical Properties
Paperback
240
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 14mm
180g
Description
When Bimala's husband, Nikhil - a wealthy yet enlightened and charitable landowner of a Bengali estate - encourages her to emerge from the traditional female seclusion of purdah, he introduces her to his old friend Sandip. Ruthless and charismatic, Sandip is a radical leader in the nationalist Swadeshi movement, and Bimala is soon caught up by his revolutionary fervour and experiences a profound political awakening. Torn between her duties as a wife and her passion for her cause, her attempts to resolve the conflict between home and the world lead to violence and, ultimately, tragedy. Vividly depicting the clash between old and new, realism and idealism, The Home and the World (1916) is a haunting allegory of India's political turmoil in the early twentieth century.
Reviews
By the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
Author Bio
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), Nobel laureate for literature (1913), was one of the greatest writer in modern Indian literature.
