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Amitav Ghosh's extraordinary first novel makes a claim on literary turf held by Gabriel García Márquez and Salman Rushdie. In a vivid and magical story, The Circle of Reason traces the misadventures of Alu, a young master weaver in a small Bengali village who is falsely accused …
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 purs…
Poet, novelist, painter and musician, Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) is the grand master of Bengali culture. Written during the 1890s, the stories in this collection recreate vivid images of Bengali life and landscapes in their depiction of peasantry and gentry, casteism, corru…
Written while Tagore was managing his family's estates in the riverlands of Bengal in the 1890s, the thirty stories in this volume represent a wonderfully fruitful period in the life of this grear writer. Here he reflects on the cruel realities he saw around him, from child-marr…
Poet, novelist, painter and musician, Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941) is the grand master of Bengali culture. Written during the 1890s, the stories in this selection brilliantly recreate vivid images of Bengali life and landscapes in their depiction of peasantry and gentry, ca…
"Discusses the cuisine to understand the construction of colonial middle-class in Bengal"
