false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180179401m/1007172.jpg 1007172 10 <div>"There are writers--Tolstoy and Henry James to name two--whom we hold in awe, writers--Turgenev and Chekhov--for whom we feel a personal affection, other writers whom we respect--Conrad for example--but who hold us at a long arm's length with their 'courtly foreign grace.' Narayan (whom I don't hesitate to name in such a context) more than any of them 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<br><br>Offering rare insight into the complexities of Indian middle-class society, R. K. Narayan traces life in the fictional town of Malgudi. <i>The Dark Room</i> is a searching look at a difficult marriage and a woman who eventually rebels against the demands of being a good and obedient wife. In <i>Mr. Sampath,</i> a newspaper man tries to keep his paper afloat in the face of social and economic changes sweeping India. Narayan writes of youth and young adulthood in the semiautobiographical <i>Swami and Friends</i> and <i>The Bachelor of Arts.</i> Although the ordinary tensions of maturing are heightened by the particular circumstances of pre-partition India, Narayan provides a universal vision of childhood, early love and grief.<br><br>"The experience of reading one of his novels is . . . comparable to one's first reaction to the great Russian novels: the fresh realization of the common humanity of all peoples, underlain by a simultaneous sense of strangeness--like one's own reflection seen in a green twilight."--Margaret Parton, <i>New York Herald Tribune</i><br><br><br></div> 1423842 book 1978 Bachelor of Arts total:131|5:28|4:53|3:43|2:6|1:1| 131 494 172 6 5 0 false false Wed Apr 22 05:51:16 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 22 05:55:33 -0700 2009
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