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    <body><![CDATA[I had really high expectations when I picked this up and, of course, I was initially disappointed. I eventually started to enjoy these short (4-6 page) stories because each has fully developed characters experiencing mini-dramas. All the stories take place in the same town and a few of the character...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21877829">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[In my view, this one book shows what a versatile author and story teller R K Narayan was.<br/><br/>Though by the time I bought this book, the Malgudi Days teleserial was completed and RKN was already etched in every youngsters mind.<br/><br/>However this book of short stories, left an even deepe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24386542">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved this collection of short stories - RK Narayan ranks there with Chekov . The stories captured the essence of India and spirit of her people. Having studied and travelled there , I felt nostalgic reading about the lives of the households and street denizens of the fictional yet not-so-fictiona...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13800163">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[You won't find Malgudi on any real map, but Narayan describes the people and the location with such skill that I often forgot that I was not being transported to an authentic Indian city.<br/><br/>In Narayan's introduction he explains that in India &quot;the writer has only to look out of the wind...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78483562">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A short-story homage to small town India, full of memorable characters, little treasures and a few real masterpieces (like &quot;Selvi&quot; or &quot;The Cobbler&quot;). ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The earlier stories were nice: short and interesting. The later, longer stories missed the mark.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Authentic indian countryside description. Make me think of my school days too!! Classic!!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[   A beautiful collection of short stories. Very easy to read when you do not have a lot of time.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[short stories -- many of them about how life can sometimes be quite depressing, boring, and repetitive and seem quite hopeless, and sometimes rather humorous as well, etc.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/>It's one thing to create a book, a character, a family, a life-way.  It's another thing altogether to build the community of Malgudi and write stories so the reader truly knows Malgudi, has lived there, argued there, fought there, felt like a resident.  Narayan doesn't just build a world with ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21791823">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the book that really got me interested in reading Indian literature.  These stories are so charming and so well wrought that I just had to have more.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Forget Rushdie and all the others.  Narayan is the greatest Indian novelist around, who writes with a measured, calm, humble, charming, tickling certainty that can only come from being the son of thousands of years of history. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Haven't finished reading all the stories, but he's a great short story writer.  Malgudi is pretty much an every-town much like our Springfield, USA (of our beloved <em>Simpsons</em>) without the cynical, razor-sharp irony.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[in support of our friends Dana and Claire, who are in Southern India as we read this with them... very short stories that make good reads right before bed as you want to transport yourself to another time and place ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Narayan writes about an imagined town in Tamil Nadu called Malgudi. I started to read this while I was in Tamil Nadu and it definitely is connected to that country. He reminds me a little of Garcia Marquez.]]></body>
    
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