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This three-volume English translation by Ratan Kumar Chattopadhyay called Selections from Galpaguchchha (Bengali for a bunch of stories)is a collection of sixty-one of Tagore`s short stories broadly grouped under the themes of parting of ways, the relationship between men and women, and the power within the woman, respectively.
Volume 1 includes memorable stories like the ˜The Pedlar from Kabul`, ˜Broken Nest`, ˜Punishment` and ˜The Postmaster`. In the first, an Afghan hawker, Rahmat, comes to Calcutta and befriends five-year-old Mini, who reminds him of his own daughter back home. While ˜Broken Nest` is a story of a lonely urban housewife`s friendship with her brother-in-law and her overwhelming sense of loss when the relationship ends abruptly, ˜Punishment` set in rural Bengal is a poignant story of young Chandora and her grim resolve when her husband, to save his brother, persuades her to own up to a murder she did not commit.
ISBN :9788125040965
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Pages : 295
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