- Social life and customs, Malgudi (India : Imaginary place), City and town life, Fiction
Living in his family's house with his wife Sita, Nagaraj fills his days drinking coffee, doing odd jobs and planning the book he intends to write about the sage Narada. But everything is disturbed when Tim, the son of his land-owning brother, decides to leave home and come to live with Nagaraj.
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Classical in form, contemplative, earnest and intimate.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemplativerelentless
- earnestironic
- intimateepic
- warmbleak
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- First published
- 1990
- Pages
- 186
- Publisher
- Heinemann, Viking, Vintage
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780670831326
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R. K. Narayan (10 October 1906 – 13 May 2001), full name Rasipuram Krishnaswami Iyer Narayanaswami, was an Indian writer, best known for his works set in the fictional South Indian town of Malgudi. He is one of three leading figures of early Indian literature in English (alongside Mulk Raj Anand and Raja Rao), and is credited with bringing the genre to the rest of the world. Narayan broke through with the help of his mentor and friend, Graham Greene, who was instrumental in getting publishers for Narayan’s first four books, including the semi-autobiographical trilogy of Swami and Friends, The Bachelor of Arts and The English Teacher. Narayan’s works also include The Financial Expert, hailed
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