Malgudi Days
Four gems, with new introductions, mark acclaimed Indian writer R. K. Narayan's centennial Introducing this collection of stories, R. K. Narayan describes how in India "the writer has only to look out of the window to pick up a character and thereby a story." Powerful, magical portraits of all...
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Four gems, with new introductions, mark acclaimed Indian writer R. K. Narayan's centennial Introducing this collection of stories, R. K. Narayan describes how in India "the writer has only to look out of the window to pick up a character and thereby a story." Powerful, magical portraits of all kinds of people, and comprising stories written over almost forty years, Malgudi Days presents Narayan's imaginary city in full color, revealing the essence of India and of human experience.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780143039655 (0143039652)
ASIN: 143039652
Publish date: August 29th 2006
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
Category:
Childrens,
Adventure,
Classics,
Humor,
Literature,
Cultural,
Literary Fiction,
Anthologies,
Collections,
India,
Asian Literature,
Indian Literature,
Short Stories
These stories feel universal; I am uncomfortably aware that this comment - from a white reader, on a non-white author's work - may smack of insensitivity to difference, but they feel universal the way greatest Russian literature does; they present human weaknesses and imperfection in a humorous, but...
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