Rabindranath Tagore : Memoirs & amp; Letters (Volume 1, Letters from Europe, 1879-1880 ) – Translated from Bengali by Manjira Dasgupta

Description

This beautifully designed collector’s edition  holds a concise curation of letters and an autobiographical excerpt of India’s first Nobel Laureate poet Rabindranath Tagore. These letters have been translated for the first time for anglophone readers from the original Bengali into English. They give a glimpse of the young Tagore as he stepped out of his home for the foreign world for the first time as he wrote these letters to share bits and details of his journey across the western world.

Replete with lush and vivid descriptions, the writing often glimmers with effortless humor, formative wisdom of the poet in making and yet remains endearingly  innocent. To love this book, one need not be familiar with his literature, nor does one need any initiation to see the world he shows, to sail and ride, laugh and sing in a strange new (old) world.