Then there were other remarkable characters - Sucharita whom Gora eventually married, her father Pareshbabu, a beautiful character, Lolita, her sister who falls in love with Gora’s dearest friend Benoy.īut the real charm of the book, which never fades in a hundred readings is that through the plot are discussed the problems of India at that time, early 19th century. Gora was never told of this and believed himself to be Anandamoyee’s son and she loved him, if that were possible, more than any son of her own. His wife, who had taken shelter in Anandamoyee’s home, died in giving birth to Gora. Anandamoyee, then Gora himself, the son of an Irish military officer who died in the Mutiny. Of course Gora has a plot, in fact two or three interconnected plots, it has very remarkable characters starting with. There are other great novelists who have written major and unforgettable works but that does not take away from the fact that Gora is a very great novel, which one can read over and over again.
Maybe one cannot accept that as undeniable. Tagore’s Gora was the best Bengali novel ever written.
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