9780226568416

The Financial Expert

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ISBN13: 9780226568416

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In The Financial Expert, R. K. Narayan once again transports readers to the southern Indian town of Malgudi. This story centers around the life and pursuits of Margayya, a man of many hopes but few resources, who spends his time under the banyan tree offering expert financial advice to those willing to pay for his knowledge. Margayya's rags-to-riches story brings forth the rich imagery of Indian life with the absorbing details and vivid storytelling that are Narayan's trademarks.

"The novels of R. K. Narayan are the best I have read in any language for a long time."--Amit Roy, Daily Telegraph

"The experience of reading one of his novels is . . . comparable to one's first reaction to the great Russian novels: the fresh realization of the common humanity of all peoples."--Margaret Parton, New York Herald Tribune Book Review

"The hardest of all things for a novelist to communicate is the extraordinary ordinariness of most human happiness. . . . Jane Austen, Soseki, Chekhov: a few bring it off. Narayan is one of them."--Francis King, Spectator


ISBN-13

9780226568416

ISBN-10

0226568415

Weight

0.50 Pounds

Dimensions

5.25 x 0.75 x 8.00 In

List Price

$13.00

Edition

2nd Edition

Format

Paperback

Language

English

Pages

224 pages

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Published On

1999-08-01



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