R K Narayan
(Rasipuram Krishnaswamy Narayan)
India (1906 - 2001)
"There are writers-- Tolstoy and James to call two--whom we have a tendency to hold in awe, writers--Ivan writer and Anton Chekhov--for whom we have a tendency to feel a private fondness, different writers UN agencym we have a tendency to respect--Joseph Teodor Josef Konrad Korzeniowski for example--but who hold America at an extended length with their 'courtly foreign grace.' Narayan (whom i do not hesitate to call in such a context) over any of them wakes in ME a spring of feeling, for he has offered ME a second home. while not him I might ne'er have better-known what it's wish to be Indian."--Graham Greene
Offering rare insight into the complexities of Indian middle-class society, R. K. Narayan traces life within the fictional city of Malgudi.
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