Rabindranath Tagore 
Stories from Tagore 

Classic novel. According to Wikipedia: ‘Rabindranath Tagore (May 1861 – 7 August 1941)was a Bengali polymath who reshaped his region’s literature and music. Author of Gitanjali and its ‘profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse’, he became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. In translation his poetry was viewed as spiritual and mercurial; his seemingly mesmeric personality, flowing hair, and other-worldly dress earned him a prophet-like reputation in the West. His ‘elegant prose and magical poetry’ remain largely unknown outside Bengal.’