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4073936Swami and Friends, The Bachelor of Arts, The Dark Room, The English Teacherhttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/swami-and-friends-the-bachelor-of-arts-the-dark-room-the-english-teacher-9780307498137/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/3711217/e334ed10-8d8a-487f-ae4d-330dfed07273.jpg?v=638385763603800000193235MXNKnopf Doubleday Publishing GroupInStock/Ebooks/<p>R. K. Narayan (19062001) witnessed nearly a century of change in his native India and captured it in fiction of uncommon warmth and vibrancy. The four novels collected here, all written during British rule, bring colonial India into intimate focus through the narrative gifts of this master of literary realism.</p><p><em>Swami and Friends</em> introduces us to Narayans beloved fictional town of Malgudi, where ten-year-old Swaminathans excitement about his countrys initial stirrings for independence competes with his ardor for cricket and all other things British. <em>The Bachelor of Arts</em> is a poignant coming-of-age novel about a young man flush with first love, but whose freedom to pursue it is hindered by the fixed ideas of his traditional Hindu family. In <em>The Dark Room</em>, Narayans portrait of aggrieved domesticity, the docile and obedient Savitri, like many Malgudi women, is torn between submitting to her husbands humiliations and trying to escape them. The title character in <em>The English Teacher</em>, Narayans most autobiographical novel, searches for meaning when the death of his young wife deprives him of his greatest source of happiness.</p><p>These pioneering novels, luminous in their detail and refreshingly free of artifice, are a gift to twentieth-century literature.</p>...4010216Swami and Friends, The Bachelor of Arts, The Dark Room, The English Teacher193235https://www.gandhi.com.mx/swami-and-friends-the-bachelor-of-arts-the-dark-room-the-english-teacher-9780307498137/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/3711217/e334ed10-8d8a-487f-ae4d-330dfed07273.jpg?v=638385763603800000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20099780307498137_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_<p>R. K. Narayan (19062001) witnessed nearly a century of change in his native India and captured it in fiction of uncommon warmth and vibrancy. The four novels collected here, all written during British rule, bring colonial India into intimate focus through the narrative gifts of this master of literary realism.</p><p><em>Swami and Friends</em> introduces us to Narayans beloved fictional town of Malgudi, where ten-year-old Swaminathans excitement about his countrys initial stirrings for independence competes with his ardor for cricket and all other things British. <em>The Bachelor of Arts</em> is a poignant coming-of-age novel about a young man flush with first love, but whose freedom to pursue it is hindered by the fixed ideas of his traditional Hindu family. In <em>The Dark Room</em>, Narayans portrait of aggrieved domesticity, the docile and obedient Savitri, like many Malgudi women, is torn between submitting to her husbands humiliations and trying to escape them. The title character in <em>The English Teacher</em>, Narayans most autobiographical novel, searches for meaning when the death of his young wife deprives him of his greatest source of happiness.</p><p>These pioneering novels, luminous in their detail and refreshingly free of artifice, are a gift to twentieth-century literature.</p>...9780307498137_Knopf Doubleday Publishing Grouplibro_electonico_6358feb0-19b9-4c69-8c86-c5ae8579ae40_9780307498137;9780307498137_9780307498137R. K.InglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/RandomHouse-epub-574a8ca0-4193-4887-a6ba-fee71fff74ba.epub2009-06-03T00:00:00+00:00Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group