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Fire Flies - Softcover

Rabindranath Tagore

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Synopsis

From the 1913 winner of the Nobel Prize in literature comes Fireflies, a collection of 200 proverbs, aphorisms, and maxims from India, China, and Japan. Collected by Rabindranath Tagore over many years, each epigrammatic firefly represents a brief yet luminous thought on life, beauty, or God. Tagore knew that the most profound subjects love, truth, compassion, birth, and death were his." Deepak Chopra

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About the Author

Written and translated by the author-Rabindranath Tagore (7 May 1861-7 August 1941), was a Bengali polymath who reshaped his region's literature and music. Author of Gitanjali and its 'profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse', he became the first non-European Nobel laureate by earning the 1913 Prize in Literature.

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