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While the colourful sweetmeats are frying in the kitchen, Jagan immerses himself in his copy of the Bhagavad Gita. A widower of firm Gandhian principles, Jagan nonetheless harbours a warm and embarrassed affection for his wastrel son Mali. Yet even Jagan's patience begins to fray when Mali descends on the sleepy city of Malgudi full of modern notions, with a new half-American wife and a grand plan for selling novel-writing machines. From different generations and different cultures, father and son are forced to confront each other, and are taken by surprise . . .
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R. K. Narayan (1906–2001), born and educated in India, was the author of fourteen novels, numerous short stories and essays, a memoir, and three retold myths. His work, championed by Graham Greene, who became a close friend, was often compared to that of Dickens, Chekhov, Faulkner, and Flannery O'Connor, among others. October 10, 2006, is the centennial of Narayan's birth.
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THE VENDOR OF SWEETS
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Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England, 1983
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Softcover. Condition: Gut. 144 Seiten Die Geschichte handelt von Jagan, einem verwitweten Mann mit festem Glauben an Gandhis Prinzipien, und den Konflikten zwischen ihm und seinem Sohn Mali, der mit modernen Ansichten aus Amerika zurückkehrt. Zustand: Einband mit stärkeren Gebrauchsspuren, Seiten geringfügig gebräunt, insgesamt GUTER Zustand. HC1-542-4/8-00709699 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 108. Seller Inventory # 306515
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