“A master of Chekhovian irony. . . Narayan’s 

    Malgudi is a metaphor, not of India, but of                                                               the world.” –The Washington Post   

Introducing this collection of stories, R.K.   Narayan describes how in India “ Malgudi days, featuring short fiction written over almost forty years, is the marvellous result. Here Narayan portrays an astrologer, a postman, a vendor of pies and chappatis- all kind of people, drawn in full colour and endearing domestic detail. And under his magician’s touch, the whole imaginary city of malgudi springs to life, revealing the essence the revealing the essence of India and of human experience,