TY - BOOK AU - Tagore,Rabindranath AU - Tagore,Surendranath TI - The home and the world SN - 9780140449860 (pbk.) : AV - PK1723 U1 - 891.4435 22 PY - 2005/// CY - London PB - Penguin KW - Bengal (India) KW - Social life and customs KW - Fiction KW - Politics and government KW - Classics KW - eflch N1 - This ed. of this translation originally published: 1985; Includes bibliographical references N2 - Set on a Bengali noble 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 ER -