The Guide
Raju talks his way into being the best guide at Malgudi station, then into managing the dancing career of an archaeologist's neglected wife, then into a forged signature and two years inside. Released and unrecognised in a village downriver, he sits on the steps of a ruined temple and is taken for a swami by people who need one, and a drought soon gives them a use for him. Winner of the Sahitya Akademi Award and the most widely read of Narayan's books.
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