Chokher Bali - Softcover

Tagore, Rabindranath

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8184003048 ISBN 13: 9788184003048

Publisher: Random House, India, 2012

Synopsis

Chokher Bali explores the forbidden emotions unleashed when a beautiful young widow enters the seemingly harmonious world of a newly married couple. This path-breaking novel by Rabindranath Tagore weaves a tangled web of relationships between the pampered and self-centred Mahendra, his innocent, childlike bride Asha, their staunch friend Bihari, and the wily, seductive Binodini, whose arrival transforms the lives of all concerned. Radha Chakravarty's translation brings the world of Tagore's fiction to life, in lucid, idiomatic prose.

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About the Authors

Rabindranath Tagore, Renaissance man, reshaped Bengal's literature and music, and became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. He introduced new prose and verse forms and the use of colloquial language into Bengali literature, thereby freeing it from traditional models based on classical Sanskrit. He was highly influential in introducing the best of Indian culture to the West and vice versa, and was a living institution for India, especially for Bengal.

Radha Chakraborty teaches English Literature in Gargi College, University of Delhi. She has co-edited The Essential Tagore (Harvard and Visva Bharati), a major anthology of Tagore's works, nominated Book of the Year 2011 by Martha Nussbaum. She is the author of Feminism and Contemporary Women Writers (Routledge, 2008) and Novelist Tagore: Modernity and Gender in Selected Texts (Routledge, forthcoming), and is currently editing Shades of Difference: Selected Writings of Rabindranath Tagore for the Social Science Press. Her translations of Tagore include Gora, Boyhood Days, Chokher Bali, Farewell Song: Shesher Kabita and The Land of Cards: Stories, Poems and Plays for Children. Other works in translation are Bankimchandra Chatterjee's Kapalkundala, In the Name of the Mother by Mahasweta Devi, Vermillion Clouds: Stories by Bengali Women, and Crossings: Stories from Bangladesh and India. She has edited Bodymaps: Stories by South Asian Women and co-edited Writing Feminism: South Asian Voices and Writing Freedom: South Asian Voices. She was nominated for the Crossword Translation Award, 2004.

Edition details

• Publisher: Random House, India
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8184003048
• ISBN 13: 9788184003048
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400