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In The Financial Expert, R. K. Narayan once again transports readers to the southern Indian town of Malgudi. This story centers around the life and pursuits of Margayya, a man of many hopes but few resources, who spends his time under the banyan tree offering expert financial advice to those willing to pay for his knowledge. Margayya's rags-to-riches story brings forth the vivid imagery of Indian life with the absorbing details and brilliant storytelling that are Narayan's trademarks.

"The 'Financial Expert' is in the great comic tradition. It has the same all-seeing picaresque quality, the same humor touched with gentle sadness, the same affirmation of life. One lives not with but THROUGH Margayya, the chief character, and through him one comes to know almost all there is to know of life in an Indian town."

American Scholar

"No liberation of the spirit, you feel, is likely to happen to these characters. Yet Narayan considers them with sympathy, even affection."

Pankaj Mishra, New York Review of Books, 02/22/2001

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