Four gems, with new introductions, mark acclaimed Indian writer R. K. Narayan’s centennial Introducing this collection of stories, R. K. Narayan describes how in India "the writer has only to look out of the window to pick up a character and thereby a story." Powerful, magical portraits of all kinds of people, and comprising stories writ...more

With the gentle humor which is perhaps the author's greatest gift, R.K. Narayan's first novel tells of the growing up of ten-year-old Swami, who lives in the town of Malgudi. Narayan evokes for us the universal experiences of childhood while capturing the particular flavor of what that experience was like in 1930 amid the first stirrings of India's...more