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 friendly volume. * Narayan has a wide fan base and is recognised as a major writer- a Nobel Prize candidate. * Published as part of the Indian Summer Promotion campaign. * 'The novelist I most admire in the English language' - Graham Green. 19970423
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.
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