"Kabuliwala" – a poignant and widely-acclaimed story by the Nobel Prize-winning Bengali master, now out in a brilliant new translation. Set in Kolkata at the turn of the 20th century, "Kabuliwala" tells of the improbable friendship between a well-to-do young girl, Mini, and a traveling dried fruit seller. When the Kabuliwala returns years later after a forced absence, the encounter leaves both parties transformed. "Tagore’s short tale, written nearly a hundred ago, remains undiminished by the passage of time. The adventure it relates—however sad and struck by misfortune it may be, and though it almost fell into oblivion—is as relevant today as it was then. Nothing has changed." -From the foreword by Jean-Claude Carrière, award-winning screenwriter Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1913. He is considered to be one of the most important literary figures of the 20th century.
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Awarded 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....
