

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
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mso-ansi-language:EN-IN;mso-fareast-language:EN-IN">Product Description</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Google Sans&quot;,sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
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line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Google Sans&quot;,sans-serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;
mso-ansi-language:EN-IN;mso-fareast-language:EN-IN">Over a career spanning
seven decades, R.K. Narayan, easily one of the most influential and important
writers of India, populated the fictional town of Malgudi with a host of
unforgettable characters: Swami and his gang of friends, the Talkative Man,
Raju the guide and Sampath the printer, among many others. These characters
have carved out a place for themselves in popular imagination and live on,
still fresh and endlessly entertaining, many decades after they first appeared.</span></p>

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line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Google Sans&quot;,sans-serif;
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mso-ansi-language:EN-IN;mso-fareast-language:EN-IN">Timeless Malgudi brings
together a selection of the best and the most enduring of R.K. Narayan’s
fiction and non-fiction. The Guide examines, with wit and irony, how a man
becomes a godman. The story ‘A Horse and Two Goats’ describes an attempt at
cross-cultural communication which goes haywire, with hilarious consequences.
The excerpt from My Days, Narayan’s autobiography, paints a poignant picture of
the author’s childhood while the ‘Misguided “Guide”’ is a cynical, sharply
written chronicle of the making of the film Guide, based on his novel. Also
included in this volume are excerpts from the travelogue My Dateless Diaryand a
brilliant retelling of the Tamil epic Silappadikaram.</span></p>

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line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Google Sans&quot;,sans-serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;
mso-ansi-language:EN-IN;mso-fareast-language:EN-IN">Catering both to Narayan
aficionados and to readers who have not yet been introduced to his work,
Timeless Malgudi is as much a showcase of Narayan’s writing as it is a
celebration of Malgudi, the town which time does not touch.</span></p>

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line-height:normal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Google Sans&quot;,sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
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EN-IN;mso-fareast-language:EN-IN">Rasipuram Krishnaswami Narayanswami</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Google Sans&quot;,sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-ansi-language:
EN-IN;mso-fareast-language:EN-IN"> was born on October 10, 1906 in Madras (now
known as Chennai), India. He is one of the best-known of the Indo-English
writers. He created the imaginary town of Malgudi, where realistic characters
in a typically Indian setting lived amid unpredictable events, alongside Mulk
Raj Anand and Raja Rao. He died on May 13, 2001.</span></p>

