Author: Rabindranath Tagore
Publisher: Macmillan
Year: 2001
Language: English
Pages: 96
ISBN/UPC (if available): 0333900049
Description
The play has a simplicity and poignancy about it which prompted W.B. Yeats to say in his introduction. ‘On the stage the little play shows that it is very perfectly constructed, and it conveys to the right audience an emotion of gentleness and peace.’
A gentle and moving play, it tells the story of a young boy, Amal. Confined to the house by an illness, Amal collects a host of friends who to his inquisitive, innocent mind in the most delightful way possible. With the world at his doorstep, Amal is happy in the fertile world of his imagination, and is willing, when the time comes, to journey from this world to the next.
The play has a simplicity and poignancy about it which prompted W.B. Yeats to say in his introduction. ‘On the stage the little play shows that it is very perfectly constructed, and it conveys to the right audience an emotion of gentleness and peace.’