Puffin Classics: Boyhood Days - Softcover

Tagore, Rabindranath

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0143330217 ISBN 13: 9780143330219

Publisher: Penguin, 2007

Synopsis

The Nobel Prize winning author recounts his childhood years in Kolkata, India, during the late-nineteenth century, discussing the people and events that helped shape his life.

About this title

Synopsis:

'I was then about seven or eight. I had no useful role to play in this world; and that old palki, too, had been dismissed from all forms of useful employment...' Hidden inside an ancient palanquin on a hot, lonely afternoon, a young boy sets off on an imaginary adventure. He encounters gangs of bandits, arrives at palaces where kings bathe in sandalwood-scented water, and the hunter accompanying him gets rid of the tiger lurking in the forest with a bang! of his gun. The boy, gifted with a vivid imagination and a sensitive mind, grew up to become one of India's greatest poets and thinkers. In "Boyhood Days", Rabindranath Tagore recounts his growing up years with gentle wit and humour. He describes life in nineteenth-century Kolkata when the only light in the evening came from castor-oil lamps; when hackney carriages raced through the city's streets and women travelled in palanquins to the Ganga for their bath. He writes about his early love for music and poetry, the myriad influences that shaped his thinking and about the other members of his large, gifted family.

About the Author:

Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was born in Calcutta. A poet, novelist and composer, Tagore had a profound effect on literature both in India and Europe. Amartya Sen is an Indian economist, philosopher, and a winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0143330217
• ISBN 13: 9780143330219
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144