The Home and the World

Jan 11, 2026 10:47 PM

Author:Rabindranath Tagore,Anita Desai,William Radice,Surendranath Tagore

Set on a Bengali noble's estate in 1908, this is both a love story and a novel of political awakening. The central character, Bimala, is torn between the duties owed to her husband, Nikhil, and the demands made on her by the radical leader, Sandip. Her attempts to resolve the irreconciliable pressures of the home and world reflect the conflict in India itself, and the tragic outcome foreshadows the unrest that accompanied Partition in 1947.

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Marian Keyes' Sushi for Beginners is the blissfully funny, smart tale of three women who discover that the line between success and failure, happiness and sadness, sanity and madness is finer than they ever thought . . .

'Dammit,' she realized. 'I think I'm having a nervous breakdown.'

—— from the publisher's description

Classic Keyes. Constantly surprising, gloriously entertaining, and has a dark underbite that makes it irresistible

—— The Pool

Nails the joy and pain of the working world . . . a brilliantly written and fabulously well-observed romantic comedy

—— Independent

Should come with a health warning. It's totally addictive . . . a real page turner

—— Sunday Express

Chatty and warmhearted, Keyes's talent is to tell it how it is

—— Independent

Our funniest living novelist

—— Daily Telegraph

Reaches a transcendental realm of its own. I couldn't even read it at times, because I was crying and choking with laughter

—— Daily Express

Sharpe is the funniest novelist currently writing ... I sat curled up with laughter

—— Time Out

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