The Man-Eater of Malgudi

The Man-Eater of Malgudi

by R. K. Narayan
The Man-Eater of Malgudi

The Man-Eater of Malgudi

by R. K. Narayan

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Overview

This is the story of Nataraj, who earns his living as a printer in the little world of Malgudi, an imaginary town in South India. Nataraj and his close friends, a poet and a journalist, find their congenia l days disturbed when Vasu, a powerful taxidermist, moves in with his stuffed hyenas and pythons, and brings his dancing-women up the printer's private stairs. When Vasu, in search of larger game, threatens the life of a temple elephant that Natara j has befriended, complications ensue that are both laughable and tragic.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781101662212
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 05/01/1993
Series: Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin
Sold by: Penguin Group
Format: eBook
Pages: 176
File size: 624 KB
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

R.K. Narayan was born in Madras, South India, in 1906, and educated there and at Maharaja’s College in Mysore. His first novel, Swami and Friends and its successor, The Bachelor of Arts, are both set in the enchanting fictional territory of Malgudi and are only two out of the twelve novels he based there. In 1958 Narayan’s work The Guide won him the National Prize of the Indian Literary Academy, his country’s highest literary honor. In addition to his novels, Narayan has authored five collections of short stories, including A Horse and Two Goats, Malguidi Days, and Under the Banyan Tree, two travel books, two volumes of essays, a volume of memoirs, and the re-told legends Gods, Demons and Others, The Ramayana, and the Mahabharata. In 1980 he was awarded the A.C. Benson Medal by the Royal Society of Literature and in 1982 he was made an Honorary Member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Narayan died in 2001.

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"Conoisseurs have known for years that the city of Malgudi, hybrid of Mysore and the molten universe, is the place to go for some of the best, wisest, and slyest scenes from the human comedy." —The Observer (London)

"Narayan's comedy . . . is a classical art, profounf in feeling and delicate in control." —The New York Times Book Review

"Narayan is a first-rate storyteller, and this is one of his most successful efforts . . . it cracks the whole of like wide open." —The New Yorker

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