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  • Rabindranath Tagore. Translated from the Bengali by Aparna Chaudhuri

    Published by Penguin Books, 2007

    Seller: Vedams eBooks (P) Ltd, New Delhi, India

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    Soft cover. Condition: As New. Rabindranath Tagore wrote He (Shey) to satisfy his nine-year-old granddaughter's incessant demands for stories. Even as Tagore began to create his grand fantasy, he planned a story that had no end, and to keep the tales spinning he employed the help of 'Shey' (He), a 'man constituted entirely of words' and rather talented at concocting tall tales. So we enter the delightful world of Shey's extraordinary adventures. In it we encounter a bizarre cast of characters (the ganja-addict Patu whose body He inhabits after losing his own in a pond, a misdirected jackal who aspires to be human, the snuff-sniffing scientists of Hoonhau Island and the New Age poets of the Hoi! Hoi! Polloi Club dedicated to the cause of tunelessness); grotesque creatures like the Gandishandung and Bell-ears; comic caricatures of contemporary figures and events, as well as mythological heroes and deities--all brought to life through a sparkling play of words and illustrations in Tagore's unique style. In this first-ever complete translation of Shey, including Tagore's delightful nonsense verse, Aparna Chaudhuri brilliantly captures the spirit and flavour of the original.".