My Beautiful Neighbor

A collection of short stories by Rabindranath Tagore, translated into Arabic by Yaacoub Hourani and published by the Ahliyya Printing and Publishing Establishment...

The stories are living, truthful pictures from the very heart of Indian life, in which India's greatest poet depicts the woes the Indian family endures, and the blind traditions that most often stand in the way of final happiness!

And there is the tranquility that accompanies the reader, by way of the harsh, stern discipline in which the Indians are reared and to whose rule they submit without rebellion... and there are the great Tagore's intimations of the deep human bent behind the outward face of the story —

Mr. Yaacoub Hourani has succeeded in the Arabizing of the stories, and without strain he carries the reader into the sprawling, contradictory atmospheres of India, with all the secrets and marvels that envelop them, and the wounds folded upon their pains —