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Under the banyan tree & other stories

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Indian Thought Publication 2017 ChennaiDescription: 193ISBN:
  • 9788185986142
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 823 NAR
Summary: "A delightful collection from India's foremost storyteller, Under the Banyan Tree adds twenty-eight tales of the rich and colorful heritage of R K Narayan's fictional south Indian city, Malgudi. Narayan's characters, observed with a wry and compassionate eye, come from every area of Indian society - merchants, beggars, herdsmen, hermits, teachers, rogues - and represent in miniature a wealth of human experience. A rebellious young man refuses to honour a vow made by his parents in an ancestral temple long ago in Nitya. A shopkeeper is made bankrupt by a charming stranger in A Career. In other tales, a schoolteacher indulges for one traumatic day in the luxury of telling the truth; a nervous small boy, forced to sleep alone to prove his courage, catches a burglar; a browbeaten clerk triumphs over his stars."
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Books Books Symbiosis Institute of Business Management - Hyderabad General Fiction 823 NAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available SIBMH-B-9947
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823 GOL The goal: 823 HIG A Fine Night For Dying 823 LAW The classic works of D.H. Lawrence 823 NAR Under the banyan tree & other stories 823 PEN The fiction collection 823 ROY The God of small things 823 ROY The god of small things

"A delightful collection from India's foremost storyteller, Under the Banyan Tree adds twenty-eight tales of the rich and colorful heritage of R K Narayan's fictional south Indian city, Malgudi. Narayan's characters, observed with a wry and compassionate eye, come from every area of Indian society - merchants, beggars, herdsmen, hermits, teachers, rogues - and represent in miniature a wealth of human experience. A rebellious young man refuses to honour a vow made by his parents in an ancestral temple long ago in Nitya. A shopkeeper is made bankrupt by a charming stranger in A Career. In other tales, a schoolteacher indulges for one traumatic day in the luxury of telling the truth; a nervous small boy, forced to sleep alone to prove his courage, catches a burglar; a browbeaten clerk triumphs over his stars."

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