THE COW OF THE BARRICADES AND OTHER STORIES

FIRST EDITION. 12mo. [4]v-vii[1]1-181[1]p. Pictorial endpapers with Champak Library imprint. Green cloth with black letters. Colorful pictorial jacket in yellow, green, black and white with a prominent cow's head on front panel. Born in India in 1908, Raja Rao is a towering figure in Indian English language fiction. OCLC lists some 50 works of biography and/or literary criticism related to him. An award-winning author, who was also Professor of Indian Philosophy in the University of Texas, 1965-1980, Rao wrote several other books, among which are KANTHAPURA (1938) and THE SERPENT AND THE ROPE (1960), which deals with his divorce. THE COW OF THE BARRRICADES, his only collection of short stories, includes the following titles: Javni, The Little Gram Shop, The True Story of Kanakapala Protector of Gold, Akkayya, Naraiga, A Client, In Khandesh, Companions, and The Cow of the Barricades. Several of these stories appear here for the first time in English, e.g., The Little Gram Shop, Akkayya, and A Client. Very minor bump to upper right corner of front cover, covers clean and bright, else near fine to fine with no internal markings. Dust jacket is very lightly soiled with some slight rubbing to spine and with tine chips at top and bottom of spine and at corners, else very good and better. …