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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Fantasy Fictions from the Bengal Renaissance: The Make-Believe Prince; Toddy-Cat the Bold

Fantasy Fictions from the Bengal Renaissance: The Make-Believe Prince; Toddy-Cat the Bold

Tagore, Abanindranath
Tagore, Gaganendranath
Sircar, Sanjay

Paperback

General Juvenile Fiction

ISBN10: 0199486751
ISBN13: 9780199486755
Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr
Published: Dec 10 2018
Pages: 372
Weight: 0.81
Height: 0.79 Width: 5.65 Depth: 8.77
Language: English
'Fantasy Fictions from the Bengal Renaissance' presents two masterpieces of Bengali literature by Rabindranath Tagore's nephews, Abanindranath Tagore and Gaganendranath Tagore. 'The Make-Believe Prince' is the delightful story of a king, his two wives, a trickster monkey, a witch, and a helper from another world who is not a 'fairy godmother'. Abanindranath deploys traditional children's rhymes and paints exquisite word-pictures in his unusual original rendering of a tale which has its origins in Bengali folktale materials in various genres. 'Toddy-Cat the Bold' sees a group of brave comrades seek help from a young boy to rescue the son of their leader from the Two-Faced Rakshasa of the forest, and has another, more numinous helper. Inspired by Lewis Carroll's Alice books, it presents a comic, exciting, and mysterious journey quite unlike Carroll's, with many traditional local touches and an unexpected ending.

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