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Description
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... read more
First Sentence
Punctually at midday he opened his bag and spread out his professional equipment, which consisted of a dozen cowrie shells, a square piece of cloth with obscure mystic charts on it, a notebook and a bundle of palmyra writing.
Table of Contents
Author's Introduction
Map
From An Astrologer's Day
1. An Astrologer's Day
2. The Missing Mail
3. The Doctor's Word
4. Gateman's Gift
5. The Blind Dog
6. Fellow-Feeling
7. The Tiger's Claw
8. Iswaran
9. Such Perfection
10. Father's Help
11. The Snake-Song
12. Engine Trouble
13. Forty-five a Month
14. Out of Business
15. Attila
16. The Axe
From Lawley Road
17. Lawley Road
18. Trail of the Green Blazer
19. The Martyr's Corner
20. Wife's Holiday
21. A Shadow
22. A Willing Slave
23. Leela's Friend
24. Mother and Son
New Stories
25. Naga
26. Selvi
27. Second Opinion
28. Cat Within
29. The Edge
30. God and the Cobbler
31. Hungry Child
32. Emden
Glossary
Authors & Contributors
- R. K. Narayan (Author)
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