Swami and Friends (Phoenix Fiction Series)
By R. K. Narayan.
Description
"There are writers--Tolstoy and Henry James to name two--whom we hold in awe, writers--Turgenev and Chekhov--for whom we feel a personal affection, other writers whom we respect--Conrad for example--but who hold us at a long arm's length with their 'courtly foreign grace.' Narayan (whom I don't hesitate to name in such a context) more than any of them 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."--Graham GreeneOffering rare insight into the complexities of Indian middl...
ISBN(s)
0226568318, 9780226568317
