The World of Malgudi: Mr. Sampath / The Financial Expert / The Painter of Signs / A Tiger for Malgudi - Softcover

R. K. Narayan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140297340 ISBN 13: 9780140297348

Publisher: Penguin Books, 2000

Synopsis

This is R.K. Narayan's classic chronicle of the adventures of a boy named Swami, and his friends Rajam and Mani, in a sleepy and picturesque South Indian town called Malgudi. Swami's days are full of action??"when he is not creating a ruckus in the classroom or preparing in his inimitable way for exams, he's trying to acquire a hoop from the coachman's son to run down the Malgudi streets, playing tricks on his grandmother, or stoning the school windows, inspired by a swadeshi demonstration. But the greatest feat of Swami and his friends lies in putting together a cricket team for the ???MCC' (the Malgudi Cricket Club) and challenging the neighbouring Young Men's Union to a match. Just before the match, however, things go horribly, horribly wrong, and Swami has no option but to run away from home, wanting never to return to Malgudi again . Malgudi Schooldays is a brilliantly evocative and delightfully funny account of the growing-up years from one of the greatest English language writer

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0140297340
• ISBN 13: 9780140297348
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 600
• Editor: S. Krishnan