About the Book: Daughters of Jorasanko
The Tagore household is falling apart. Rabindranath cannot shake off the
disquiet in his heart after the death of his wife Mrinalini. Happiness and
well-being elude him. His daughters and daughter-in-law struggle hard to cope
with incompatible marriages, ill health and the stigma of childlessness. The
extended family of Jorasanko is steeped in debt and there is talk of mortgaging
one of the houses. Even as Rabindranath deals with his own financial problems
and strives hard to keep his dream of Santiniketan alive, news reaches him that
he has been awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. Will this be a turning