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Title: MR. SAMPATH
THE PRINTER OF MALGUDI
By: R. K. Narayan
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 0226568393
ISBN 13: 9780226568393
Publisher: THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS
Pub. date: 1 June, 1981
Series: Phoenix Fiction S.
Pages: 220
Description: This examination of the chaos of Indian film-making.
Synopsis: "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 Offering rare insight into the complexities of Indian middle-class society, R. K. Narayan traces life in the fictional town of Malgudi. The Dark Room 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 Mr. Sampath, 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 Swami and Friends and The Bachelor of Arts.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. "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, New York Herald Tribune
Publication: US
Imprint: University of Chicago Press
Returns: Non-returnable
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A BREATH OF LUCIFER (PB)
A MALGUDI OMNIBUS (PB)
A STORY-TELLER'S WORLD (PB)
A TOWN CALLED MALGUDI (PB)
GODS, DEMONS AND OTHERS (PB)
GODS, DEMONS AND OTHERS (PB)
GODS, DEMONS AND OTHERS (PB)
GODS, DEMONS AND OTHERS (PB)
HALWAI (PB)
MAHABHARATA (PB)
MALGUDI ADVENTURES (PB)
MALGUDI DAYS (PB)
MALGUDI DAYS (PB)
MALGUDI SCHOOLDAYS (HB)
MORE TALES FROM MALGUDI (PB)
MR SAMPATH (PB)
MR SAMPATH-THE PRINTER OF MALGUDI (HB)
MY DATELESS DIARY (PB)
MY DAYS
MY DAYS (PB)
NEUROTRAUMA (HB)
PAINTER OF SIGNS (PB)
R K NARAYAN OMNIBUS VOLUME 2 (HB)
R.K. NARAYAN OMNIBUS (HB)
RAMAYANA (PB)
SWAMI AND FRIENDS (PB)
SWAMI AND FRIENDS (PB)
SWAMI AND FRIENDS (PB)
TALKATIVE MAN (PB)
TALKATIVE MAN (PB)
THE BACHELOR OF ARTS (PB)
THE BACHELOR OF ARTS (PB)
THE DARK ROOM (PB)
THE DARK ROOM (PB)
THE ENGLISH TEACHER (PB)
THE ENGLISH TEACHER (PB)
THE FINANCIAL EXPERT (PB)
THE FINANCIAL EXPERT (PB)
THE GRANDMOTHER'S TALE (PB)
THE GUIDE (PB)
THE GUIDE (PB)
THE MAHABHARATA (PB)
THE MAHABHARATA (PB)
THE MAHABHARATA (PB)
THE MAN-EATER OF MALGUDI (PB)
THE MAN-EATER OF MALGUDI (PB)
THE PAINTER OF SIGNS (PB)
THE RAMAYANA (PB)
THE RAMAYANA (PB)
THE VENDOR OF SWEETS (PB)
THE VENDOR OF SWEETS (PB)
TIGER FOR MALGUDI AND THE MAN-EATER OF MALGUDI (PB)
UNDER THE BANYAN TREE AND OTHER STORIES (PB)
UNDER THE BANYAN TREE AND OTHER STORIES (PB)
WAITING FOR THE MAHATMA (PB)
WAITING FOR THE MAHATMA (PB)
WORLD OF NAGARAJ (PB)
WRITER'S NIGHTMARE (PB)

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