R. K. Narayan (1906-2001) witnessed nearly a century of change in
his native India and captured it in fiction of uncommon warmth and
vibrancy. Swami and Friends introduces us to Narayan's beloved
fictional town of Malgudi, where ten-year-old Swaminathan's
excitement about his country's initial stirrings for independence
competes with his ardour for cricket and all other things British.
The Bachelor of Arts is a poignant coming-of-age novel about a
young man flush with first love, but whose freedom to pursue it is
hindered by the fixed ideas of his traditional Hindu family. In The
Dark Room, Narayan's portrait of aggrieved domesticity, the docile
and obedient Savitri, like many Malgudi women, is torn between
submitting to her husband's humiliations and trying to escape them.
The title character in The English Teacher, Narayan's most
autobiographical novel, searches for meaning when the death of his
young wife deprives him of his greatest source of happiness.
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