The Bachelor of Arts - Softcover
Story of Chandran, a young man in his last year at college. Narayan's characters are fully alive in their doubts, their affections and aspirations - concern shown with assumed careflessness, Hindu customs observed as often as they are ignored, shown with gentle and wry humour. The reader enters a subtle and rewarding world bright with the colour of difference. Graham Greene writes in the introduction: "Narayan 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."
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R. K. Narayan (1906–2001) was one of the most prominent Indian novelists of the twentieth century. Most of his stories are set in the fictional South Indian town of Malgudi, a place that Narayan populated with numerous characters. He was the recipient of many awards for his work including the National Prize of the Indian Literary Academy, India's highest literary honor. In 1980 he was awarded the AC Benson Medal by the Royal Society of Literature, of which he was an honorary member and in 1982 he was elected an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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"RK Narayan's Malgudi novels are humorous gems and it is a great pity that they are not better known. He wrote beautifully and with great compassion, something regrettably lacking in some humorous writing" -- Alexander McCall Smith
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- PublisherIndian Thought Publications
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 0749397411
- ISBN 13 9780749397418
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages272
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