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The Home and the World

By: Rabindranath Tagore
Narrated by: Deepti Gupta
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Audie-nominated narrator Deepti Gupta shares a classic love story set among the fires of India's struggle for independence. Bimala is torn between her commitment to her husband, Nikhil, who holds Western beliefs, and the radical Sandip, a leader of the Swadeshi movement under the British Raj. Bimala finds herself asking what freedom truly means for herself and for her country.

Author, poet, and Nobel laureate Sir Rabindranath Tagore sets the story on a Bengali noble's estate in 1908. It is both a love story and a novel of political awakening. Bimala's attempts to resolve the irreconcilable - pressures of home and the world - reflect the conflict in India itself. The tragic outcome foreshadows the unrest that accompanied Partition in 1947.

Public Domain (P)2020 Spoken Realms Classics Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction World Literature Fiction
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I am beginning to get intrigued by the story but found the flat performance really unbearable. It’s confusing the reader makes absolutely no distinction between the characters when she is acting them. This is supposed to be one of the big Classics and the delivery ruins it. It’s excruciating! To be fair, I cannot judge the story because I could not continue. I’m going to try and switch to another narrator. I ask ChatGPT to. Give me a summary of the book and I can see that it is intriguing and worth continuing but not with this narrator sorry!

Flat performance spoils the book

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