Malgudi Days
A postman who cannot bring himself to hand over a telegram, an astrologer working by the light of a passing vendor's flare, a blind beggar led by a dog, a talkative man who talks his way into trouble: short pieces from one small South Indian town, most of them first printed as a newspaper column in Madras. The people recur, the streets stay where they were, and the tone stays level whether the subject is a windfall or a death. The stories fixed Malgudi as a place readers could navigate before they had opened any of the longer books set there.
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- companion to ↑ Swami and Friends
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