{"title":"Rabindranath Tagore","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eRabrindranath Tagore\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (1861–1941) was a Bengali poet, novelist, painter, and composer. The son of the religious reformer Debendranath Tagore, he began writing at an early age, and pursued studies in England in the late 1870s before returning to India. In 1913, he became the first non-European to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"gora","title":"Gora","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWidely regarded as the grandfather of Indian letters, Rabindranath Tagore is best known as the Nobel Prize–winning poet and author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eGitanjali\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, but he was an equally virtuosic writer of fiction who, like Eliot, Tolstoy, and Dickens, employed the form of the novel to probe the pressing social and political issues of his day. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eGora\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is Tagore’s great masterpiece, a coming-of-age novel set in late 1870s and early 1880s Calcutta—the high noon of the British Raj—which tells the story of two young men, the eponymous Gora, given to endless argument and theorizing, and his childhood best friend Binoy.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA former progressive, Gora has turned away from his ambition to reform Hindu society, and has embraced Hindu orthodoxy fully in the interest of fashioning what he thinks is a genuine Indian way of opposing imperialism. But his ideals are challenged when he and Binoy fall in love with sisters Sucharita and Lolita, modern, educated women raised in a family that has embraced Western ways. A novel that ponders nationalism, colonial resistance, and the tensions between indigenous values and modernity, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eGora\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e brings a vibrant late-nineteenth-century India to life.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New York Review Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":55775126782120,"sku":"9798896231394","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0726\/9203\/files\/Art_CoverImageNotAvailable02_40daeb3a-c30c-4dc9-97ac-8fd722788421.jpg?v=1739489294"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.nyrb.com\/collections\/rabindranath-tagore.oembed","provider":"New York Review Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}