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I had the good fortune to read Malgudi Days a few weeks ago while traveling in India for the first time ... I certainly cannot claim to be an expert on India, but I felt like Malgudi Days captured the spirit of India in a few short pages at a time better than thousand page tomes or hours-long miniseries ever possibly could. The hope and heartbreak of the common man and woman (although, unfortunately, the woman's perspective usually takes the back seat), the constant teetering on the knife's edge between riches and ruin, the cruel twists of fate ... although there is something concise and light about Narayan's writing style, many if not most of the stories have a rather dark side to them. In spite of this, the stories are compelling page-turners, as the reader immerses him- or herself into the charismatic town of Malgudi, which itself is arguably the main protagonist of this work.

Despite the short length of the stories, taken as a whole there is a kind of haunting beauty--despite the grit and calamity--that sticks with the reader long after they finish this work. Compelling, unforgettable, vibrant and yet tinged by a hint of sadness ... a bit like India itself, dare I say?


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Malgudi Days Penguin Classics R K Narayan Jhumpa Lahiri Books Reviews

R. K. Narayan's works need no further superlatives! A master story-teller!
Like Faulker, R.K. Narayan creates a fictional world; Malgudi. His is humorous and evokes India before independence.This is one of his classic set of short stories creating memorable characters in a traditional India.
Jhumpa Lahiri summarizes it all in her introduction to the collection of short stories. Those short stories are very easy to read. They have a natural flow in them. Narayan brings his reader into the heart of an India which is neither idealized nor criticized. Under a simple, clear language and well-wrought little plots, a whole complex world comes to life. Adding all these short stories one to the other builds a colossal portrait of the universal man and of the post-colonial India. A real jewel.
I discovered these stories, of a writer I did not know before, on Jhumpa Lahiri's recommendation. Since I love everything she writes and considering that she is an absolute master of the short story herself, I had every faith in her recommendation. Everything that she writes about these stories in her foreword is true. Narayan is a wonderful writer. All these stories combine succinctness and precision with a human and symbolic resonance that is truly exceptional.
I'm not much of a fan of fiction, but this book was highly colorful and interesting. The one story I read was humorous and entertaining.
Very clear and lucid writings. Will keep a reader engrossed and will take you to long back good old days.
So there's a book club starting at my office and this is the first book they picked...

A collection of short stories (the longest is 20 pages, many are 5 or 6) by someone who seems to have been one of the great Indian writers of the 20th Century, though I'd never heard of him before, which says more about me than it does about him. The stories are well-observed little vignettes, most with a Saki/Henry "twist in the tail." The characters are vivid, and there's a real sense of the reality of his fictional city of Malgudi.

The biggest problem for me was that I didn't find the book very, well, _visual_. The city seems real because its people seem real, and because there is a building sense of, "Oh, yes, that place;" but I don't know, usually, what "that place" looks like.

But it's a very enjoyable read, and a fairly fast one.
I had the good fortune to read Malgudi Days a few weeks ago while traveling in India for the first time ... I certainly cannot claim to be an expert on India, but I felt like Malgudi Days captured the spirit of India in a few short pages at a time better than thousand page tomes or hours-long miniseries ever possibly could. The hope and heartbreak of the common man and woman (although, unfortunately, the woman's perspective usually takes the back seat), the constant teetering on the knife's edge between riches and ruin, the cruel twists of fate ... although there is something concise and light about Narayan's writing style, many if not most of the stories have a rather dark side to them. In spite of this, the stories are compelling page-turners, as the reader immerses him- or herself into the charismatic town of Malgudi, which itself is arguably the main protagonist of this work.

Despite the short length of the stories, taken as a whole there is a kind of haunting beauty--despite the grit and calamity--that sticks with the reader long after they finish this work. Compelling, unforgettable, vibrant and yet tinged by a hint of sadness ... a bit like India itself, dare I say?