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R K Narayan

 
9780749397319: The Grandmothers Tale
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ISBN 10: 0749397314 ISBN 13: 9780749397319
Editorial: Penguin Random House UK, 1994

Sinopsis

’In the title story of this collection of marvellous stories the narrator a novelist sits at the elbow of his grandmother as she tells of how her mother betrothed at seven years old had to pursue her runaway "husband" halfway across the subcontinent.In "Guru" a corrupt grasping official gets his comeuppance not so much because he is crooked but because he fails to honour a financial pledge made to his daughters-in-law.In "Salt and Sawdust" when a young woman embarks on a career as a novelist the characters are again made to tread the commercial fault lines between cordiality and aloofness ... From such nerve endings are the making of humour sadness wisdom and joy’ Observer’Narayan the creator of the imaginary small town of Malgudi is undoubtedly the most brilliant exponent of the fiction as well as the friction of intimacy ... Anthony Burgess has compared him to Chekhov.One might also compare him with those other masters of small worlds John McGahern and Isaac Singer.That there is argument over his literary allegiances is proof of the universality of his intelligent charm’ Sunday Times’A storyteller of a high order ... It is as wise as it is funny’ Daily Telegraph’Irresistibly readable’ The Herald

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Acerca del autor

R K Narayan's writing spans the greatest period of change in modern Indian history, from the days of the Raj - Swami and Friends (1935), The Bachelor of Arts (1937) and The English Teacher (1945) - to recent years of political unrest - The Painter of Signs (1976), A Tiger for Malgudi (1983), and Talkative Man (1987). He has published numerous collections of short stories, including Malgudi Days (1982), and Under the Banyan Tree (1985), and several works of non-fiction.

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Editorial
Penguin Random House UK
Año de publicación
1994
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0749397314
ISBN 13 
9780749397319
Encuadernación
Tapa blanda
Número de páginas
144
Contacto del fabricante
no disponible
Persona responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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