The four novels collected here, all written during British rule, bring colonial India into intimate focus through the narrative gifts of this master of literary realism.
INTRODUCER BIOGRAPHY-
Alexander McCall Smith is a professor of medical law at Edinburgh
University. He was born in what is now known as Zimbabwe and taught
law at the University of Botswana. He is the author of over fifty
books on a wide range of subjects, including the internationally
bestselling novels of the No. 1
Ladies Detective Agency series and the Sunday Philosophy Club
series. He lives in Scotland.
Narayan wakes in me a spring of gratitude, for he has offered me a
second home. Without him I could never have known what it is like
to be Indian.
*Graham Greene*
Narayan's humour and compassion come from a deep universal well,
with the result that he has transformed his imaginary township of
Malgudi into a bubbling parish of the world.
*The Observer*
An idyll as delicious as anything I have met in modern literature
for a long time. The atmosphere and texture of happiness, and,
above all, its elusiveness, have seldom been so perfectly
transcribed.
*Elizabeth Bowen*
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