A Tiger for Malgudi
by:
R.K. Narayan (author)
A venerable tiger, old and toothless now, looks back over his life from cubhood and early days roaming wild in the Indian jungle. Trapped into a miserable circus career as 'Raja the magnificent', he is then sold into films (co-starring with a beefy Tarzan in a leopard skin) until, finding the...
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A venerable tiger, old and toothless now, looks back over his life from cubhood and early days roaming wild in the Indian jungle. Trapped into a miserable circus career as 'Raja the magnificent', he is then sold into films (co-starring with a beefy Tarzan in a leopard skin) until, finding the human world too brutish and bewildering, he makes a dramatic bid for freedom. R.K. Narayan's story combines Hindu mysticism with ripe Malgudi comedy, viewing human absurdities through the eyes of a wild animal and revealing how, quite unexpectedly, Raja finds sweet companionship and peace.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780140185454 (0140185453)
Publish date: October 1st 1994
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Pages no: 160
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Travel,
Humor,
Literature,
Cultural,
India,
Asian Literature,
Indian Literature,
Asia,
Post Colonial
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