Mr Sampath-The Printer of Malgudi, The Financial Expert, Waiting for the Mahatma: Introduction by Alexander McCall Smith

Mr Sampath-The Printer of Malgudi, The Financial Expert, Waiting for the Mahatma: Introduction by Alexander McCall Smith

Mr Sampath-The Printer of Malgudi, The Financial Expert, Waiting for the Mahatma: Introduction by Alexander McCall Smith

Mr Sampath-The Printer of Malgudi, The Financial Expert, Waiting for the Mahatma: Introduction by Alexander McCall Smith

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Overview

In the novels of R. K. Narayan (1906-2001), the forefather of modern Indian fiction, human-scale hopes and epiphanies express the promise of a nation as it awakens to its place in the world. The three novels brought together in this volume, all written after India’s independence, are masterpieces of social comedy, rich in local color and abounding in affectionate humor and generosity of spirit.

Mr. Sampath–The Printer of Malgudi is the story of a businessman who adapts to the collapse of his weekly newspaper by shifting to screenplays, only to have the glamour of it all go to his head. In The Financial Expert, a man of many hopes but few resources spends his time under a banyan tree dispensing financial advice to those willing to pay for his knowledge. In Waiting for the Mahatma, a young drifter meets the most beautiful girl he has ever seen–an adherent of Mahatma Gandhi–and commits himself to Gandhi’s Quit India campaign, a decision that will test the integrity of his ideals against the strength of his passions. As charming as they are compassionate, these novels provide an indelible portrait of India in the twentieth century.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780307496928
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 07/22/2009
Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series
Sold by: Random House
Format: eBook
Pages: 616
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

R. K. Narayan (1906–2001), born and educated in India, was the author of fourteen novels, numerous short stories and essays, a memoir, and three retold myths. His work, championed by Graham Greene, who became a close friend, was often compared to that of Dickens, Chekhov, Faulkner, and Flannery O'Connor, among others. October 10, 2006, is the centennial of Narayan's birth.
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