Malgudi days
By: R.K. Narayan ; introduction by Jhumpa Lahiri.
Series: Penguin classics
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780143039655
Subjects: Malgudi (India : Imaginary place) -- Fiction.; City and town life -- Fiction.; India -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: 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'. "Malgudi Days" is the marvellous result. Here, Narayan portrays an astrologer, a snake-charmer, a postman, a vendor of pies and chappatis - all kinds of people, drawn in full colour and endearing domestic detail. And under his magician's touch the whole imaginary city of Malgudi springs to life, revealing the essence of India and of human experience.
Notes: Originally published: New York : Viking Press, 1982.