Chokher Bali
A young widow, educated and unplaceable in a household that has no role for her, is taken in by a doting Calcutta couple and becomes the wife's confidante and the husband's fixation. Letters written, hidden and intercepted do the work that speech cannot in a joint family where nobody is ever alone. Tagore's first sustained study of interior life, and the book credited with turning Bengali fiction from incident toward psychology.
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