Gora [Paperback]

Rabindranath Tagore (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1985

This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.

--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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Language Notes

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Bengali --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Asia Book Corp of Amer (June 1985)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0318369281
• ISBN-13: 978-0318369280
• Product Dimensions: 7.2 x 4.5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,631,569 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It shakes you away from your rigid beliefs., March 12, 1999

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This review is from: Gora (Paperback)

Gora is inteligent, energetic and a strong believer. He believes in believing and acting for those beliefs. He is strong he is aggressive. He thinks that the strong belief can bring in all the good. Strong belief in God, Culture, country, ... will automatically make them self confident and will lead to progress. Which will eliminate the problems for the society. He subscribes to the beliefs, that he thinks are birth right to him. He is strong Hindu, He is strong Indian, Strong __, ... At the end he comes to know that his all the beliefs are baseless. He is devastated! The meaning of his existence was closely bound to his beliefs, but there is nothing to believe. What can he survive on? He gains new insights and so do we.

All the women characters are simply great!! Which is very characteristic of Tagore and Sharad Chandra.

This book changed me!

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Typical Tagore, untypical for its times, May 14, 2001

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Manojendu Choudhury "Manojendu" (Mumbai, Maharashtra, India) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Gora (Paperback)

To truly appreciate this book one needs to have some fair idea of the social, religious and political situation of India during the late nineteenth-early twentieth century. This book revolutionised the thinking and beliefs of the then contemporary modern thinkers and intellectuals, laying the foundation of the idea of a secular Indian society. The underlying theme is the essence of being a human, and very few in the history of mankind could find words that brings this out so beautifully (more so in the original Bengali, much of it is lost in the English translation). The reader undergoes the journey of self discovery along with the main protagonist, Gora. The beauty of Tagore's writing is that the unpredicatability and the vulnerability of the characters make them so natural and real, bringing out the inherent self-contradictions of human beings until they discover their true self and then all the cunfusions and the contradictions in one's own faith vanish. One finds one's place in this cosmos, realises the implication of being a human, experiences the beauty of life. And this makes the appeal of the book timeless.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Kindle edition a no-no, August 22, 2011

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Santhosh Ramakrishna - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Gora (Kindle Edition)

Don't buy this kindle edition. The book is a classic in Indian literature, but this edition has the worst translation. The author has translated bengali into english word to word, with no semblance of grammar, sentence structure or meaning. Better get the penguin paperback edition, and not this mess.