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Broken Nest and Other Stories
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FEATURING THE STORY THAT BECAME A POPULAR FILM
This selection of Tagore’s stories exemplifies his remarkable ability to enter the complexities of human relationships. Within seemingly simple plots, Tagore portrays with unusual compassion and lyricism the predicament of Bengali women in traditional contexts, moving from the loneliness of an intelligent, beautiful woman neglected by her husband in his acclaimed novella ‘Broken Nest’ to the powerlessness of a young girl whose prized possession is taken away in ‘Notebook’, from the casual abandonment of an orphan in ‘Postmaster’ to a girl robbed of her childhood in ‘The Ghat’s Tale’.
Powerful in their simplicity, brilliant in their astuteness, the novella and three short stories included in this collection—translated by acclaimed poet and fiction writer Sharmistha Mohanty—are some of the Nobel Laureate’s finest prose works.
About the Author
Sharmistha Mohanty is the author of three works of prose, Book One, New Life and Five Movements in Praise, and a book of poems, The Gods Came Afterwards. Her most recent work is Extinctions, a book of prose poems.
FEATURING THE STORY THAT BECAME A POPULAR FILM
This selection of Tagore’s stories exemplifies his remarkable ability to enter the complexities of human relationships. Within seemingly simple plots, Tagore portrays with unusual compassion and lyricism the predicament of Bengali women in traditional contexts, moving from the loneliness of an intelligent, beautiful woman neglected by her husband in his acclaimed novella ‘Broken Nest’ to the powerlessness of a young girl whose prized possession is taken away in ‘Notebook’, from the casual abandonment of an orphan in ‘Postmaster’ to a girl robbed of her childhood in ‘The Ghat’s Tale’.
Powerful in their simplicity, brilliant in their astuteness, the novella and three short stories included in this collection—translated by acclaimed poet and fiction writer Sharmistha Mohanty—are some of the Nobel Laureate’s finest prose works.
About the Author
Sharmistha Mohanty is the author of three works of prose, Book One, New Life and Five Movements in Praise, and a book of poems, The Gods Came Afterwards. Her most recent work is Extinctions, a book of prose poems.
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Published April 30, 2025
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Rabindranath Tagore
2,597 books4,270 followersAwarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913 "because of his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which, with consummate skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own English words, a part of the literature of the West."
Tagore modernised Bengali art by spurning rigid classical forms and resisting linguistic strictures. His novels, stories, songs, dance-dramas, and essays spoke to topics political and personal. Gitanjali (Song Offerings), Gora (Fair-Faced), and Ghare-Baire (The Home and the World) are his best-known works, and his verse, short stories, and novels were acclaimed—or panned—for their lyricism, colloquialism, naturalism, and unnatural contemplation. His compositions were chosen by two nations as national anthems: India's Jana Gana Mana and Bangladesh's Amar Shonar Bangla.
The complete works of Rabindranath Tagore (রবীন্দ্র রচনাবলী) in the original Bengali are now available at these third-party websites:
http://www.tagoreweb.in/
http://www.rabindra-rachanabali.nltr....
Tagore modernised Bengali art by spurning rigid classical forms and resisting linguistic strictures. His novels, stories, songs, dance-dramas, and essays spoke to topics political and personal. Gitanjali (Song Offerings), Gora (Fair-Faced), and Ghare-Baire (The Home and the World) are his best-known works, and his verse, short stories, and novels were acclaimed—or panned—for their lyricism, colloquialism, naturalism, and unnatural contemplation. His compositions were chosen by two nations as national anthems: India's Jana Gana Mana and Bangladesh's Amar Shonar Bangla.
The complete works of Rabindranath Tagore (রবীন্দ্র রচনাবলী) in the original Bengali are now available at these third-party websites:
http://www.tagoreweb.in/
http://www.rabindra-rachanabali.nltr....
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