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'Few writers since Dickens can match the effect of the colourful teeming that Narayan's fictional city ...
'R K Narayan is one of those writers who not only creates literature but reaffirms its relevance to everyday ...
R K Narayan's writing spans the greatest period of change in modern Indian history, from the days of the Raj - Swami and Friends (1935), The Bachelor of Arts (1937) and The English Teacher (1945) - to recent years of political unrest - The Painter of Signs (1976), A Tiger for Malgudi (1983), and Talkative Man (1987). He has published numerous collections of short stories, including Malgudi Days (1982), and Under the Banyan Tree (1985), and several works of non-fiction.
KEY POINTS: * A companion volume to A Malgudi Omnibus which Minerva published in 1994 and features three other Malgudi novels. * A wonderful collection of novels gathered together in one stunning reader ...
'Few writers since Dickens can match the effect of the colourful teeming that Narayan's fictional city of Malgudi conveys' John Updike
Keynote/Publisher's Comments'The novelist I admire most in the English language' Graham Greene
'R K Narayan is one of those writers who not only creates literature but reaffirms its relevance to everyday life' Financial Times