A Town Called Malgudi

This collection brings between two covers some of the most memrable fiction that has emerged from R.K Narayan's pen.It contains The Man-eater of Malgudi, arguably the greatest novel Narayan has ever written, which tells the story of Nataraj, owner of a small printing press, and his house guest Vasu, a taxidermist, who moves into Nataraj's attic with a menagrie of dead animals.There is also Talkative Man, a novella that starts off with the arrival on the Delhi train of a stranger in a blue suit who takes up residence in the station waiting-room and refuses to budge. Also included here are some of the most popular and striking short stories Narayan has ever written: from the celebrated 'A Horse And Two Goats' and 'Salt and Saltdust', the tale of a wife who cannot distinguis between salt and sawdust for seasoning and thus leaves her husband with no option bt to cook himself , to gems like 'An Astrologer's Day','The Shelter' and 'Under The Banyan Tree', which is about a man called Nambi who has the uncanny ability to mesmerize his audience with his stories, but eventually lapses into silence.Encapsulating the very best of R.K Narayan's remarkable output, this is a fitting tribute in the English language.