Text size Years ago, during a somber visit to Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust museum, author Jai Chakrabarti found the spark of an idea that would become his celebrated 2021 novel about an unlikely romance, A Play for the End of the World. It was an exhibit on the author, doctor, and teacher Janusz Korczak, who had staged a play by the Bengali Nobel laureate playwright Rabindranath Tagore at the Warsaw orphanage he led during the Nazi occupation in 1942. “I was really taken because I had grown up with Tagore’s work, being born in Kolkata, India,” Chakrabarti says. “I wanted...