First printing. A novel of the fictional South Indian town of Malgudi. Includes jacket blurbs from Graham Greene, John Updike, and Henry Miller. Slight sunning to spine of dustjacket, else a clean unmarked copy.

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Bibliographic Details

Title

The Painter of Signs

Publisher

Viking Press, New York

Publication Date

1976

Language

English

ISBN 10

0670535672

ISBN 13

9780670535675

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

First American edition.

Condition

Very Good +

Dust Jacket Condition

very good +

Seller catalogs

Fiction

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Synopsis

In this wry, funny, bittersweet story, love gets in the way of progress when Raman, a sign painter, meets the thrillingly independent Daisy, who wishes to bring birth control to the city of Malgudi.

About the Author

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.

Monica Ali, one of Granta's "Best of Young British Novelists," is the author of Brick Lane, finalist for the Man Booker Prize.

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