Malgudi Days

Name: Malgudi Days
Author: R.K. Narayan

by R.K. Narayan

Interconnected stories of ordinary people in Malgudi facing love, loss, and moral dilemmas

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R.K. Narayan

Indian novelist who created the fictional South Indian town of Malgudi as a microcosm of Indian life. His gentle, ironic fiction about ordinary people earned him a place among the finest English-language novelists of the 20th century.

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