A Tiger for Malgudi - eBook

Name: A Tiger for Malgudi - eBook
Price: 11.99 USD
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ISBN: 9781440618994

By: R.K. Narayan

Penguin Classics / 1994 / ePub

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Title: A Tiger for Malgudi - eBook
By: R.K. Narayan
Format: DRM Protected ePub
Vendor: Penguin Classics

Publication Date: 1994
ISBN: 9781440618994
ISBN-13: 9781440618994
Stock No: WW47707EB

Publisher's Description

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A venerable tiger, old and toothless now, looks back over his life from cubhood and early days roaming wild in the Indian jungle. Trapped into a miserable circus career as 'Raja the magnificent', he is then sold into films (co-starring with a beefy Tarzan in a leopard skin) until, finding the human world too brutish and bewildering, he makes a dramatic bid for freedom.

R.K. Narayan's story combines Hindu mysticism with ripe Malgudi comedy, viewing human absurdities through the eyes of a wild animal and revealing how, quite unexpectedly, Raja finds sweet companionship and peace.

Author Bio

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R. K. Narayan (1906–2001), born and educated in India, was the author of 14 novels, numerous short stories and essays, a memoir, and three retold myths. His work, championed by Graham Greene (who became a close friend), was often compared to that of Dickens, Chekhov, Faulkner, and O'Connor, among others.