Hungry Stones and Other Stories

This book is a selection of the best of Tagore’s short stories.  These stories display the versatility of the great writer.  Ranging from the fanciful and supernatural in Hungry Stones, to the delicate, poignance in The Homecoming.  Tagore had a remarkable capacity to empathise with this characters and his characterization shows a great deal of psychological insight.  A master of the short story genre, Tagore can evoke pathos and humour at the same time. His sense of comic gives him-and the reader-an objective view of otherwise sentimental situations. These stories have a firm narrative thread and are a delight to every reader-serious and not-so.