![]() Your support of the author’s rights is appreciated. Please purchase only authorized electronic editions, and do not participate in or encourage electronic piracy of copyrighted materials. ![]() PR9499.3.N3M34 2006 823’.912-dc 2006044313 The scanning, uploading and distribution of this book via the Internet or via any other means without the permission of the publisher is illegal and punishable by law. Malgudi (India : Imaginary place)-Fiction. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA Narayan, R. Fennelly of Adelphi University to illustrate his paper “The City of MalgudiĪs an Expression of the Ordered Hindu Cosmos,” delivered at the American Academy of Religion International Region Conference, 1978. 4-5 has been faithfully redrawn for publication by Clarice Borio from the original constructed by Dr James M. Narayan, 1972, 1975, 1978, 1980, 1981, 1982 Introduction copyright © Jhumpa Lahiri, 2006 All rights reserved Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following publications in which some of these selections originally appeared: Antaeus: “Cat Within,” “The Edge,” “The Martyr’s Corner,” and “Trail of the Green Blaze.” The New Yorker: “Naga” and “Second Opinion.” Playboy: “God and the Cobbler.” The map on pp. Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2, Ireland (a division of Penguin Books Ltd) Penguin Group (Australia), 250 Camberwell Road, Camberwell, Victoria 3124, Australia (a division of Pearson Australia Group Pty Ltd) Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd, 11 Community Centre, Panchsheel Park, New Delhi-110 017, India Penguin Group (NZ), cnr Airborne and Rosedale Roads, Albany, Auckland 1310, New Zealand (a division of Pearson New Zealand Ltd) Penguin Books (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd, 24 Sturdee Avenue, Rosebank, Johannesburg 2196, South Africa Penguin Books Ltd., Registered Offices: 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England First published in the United States of America by the Viking Press 1982 First published in Great Britain by William Heinemann Ltd 1982 Published in Penguin Books 1984 This edition with a new introduction by Jhumpa Lahiri published 2006 Copyright © R. Penguin Group (Canada), 90 Eglinton Avenue East, Suite 700, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4P 2Y3 (a division of Pearson Penguin Canada Inc.) Penguin Books Ltd., 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England Penguin Ireland, 25 St. PENGUIN BOOKS Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, U.S.A. ![]() She is the author of Interpreter of Maladies, her debut collection of stories that won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction as well as the PEN/Hemingway Award, and an acclaimed novel, The Namesake. JHUMPA LAHIRI was born in London and raised in Rhode Island. In 1989 he was made a member of the Rajya Sabha, the non-elective House of Parliament in India. Benson Medal by the Royal Society of Literature, and in 1981 he was made an Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Narayan also published travel books, volumes of essays, the memoir My Days, and the retold legends Gods, Demons, and Others, The Ramayana, and The Mahabharata. Without him I could never have known what it is like to be Indian.” Narayan’s fiction earned him comparisons to the work of writers including Anton Chekhov, William Faulkner, O. ![]() Graham Greene, Narayan’s friend and literary champion, said, “He has offered me a second home. His collections of short fiction include A Horse and Two Goats, Malgudi Days, and Under the Banyan Tree. His first novel, Swami and Friends (1935), and its successor, The Bachelor of Arts (1937), are both set in the fictional territory of Malgudi, of which John Updike wrote, “Few writers since Dickens can match the effect of colorful teeming that Narayan’s fictional city of Malgudi conveys its population is as sharply chiseled as a temple frieze, and as endless, with always, one feels, more characters round the corner.” Narayan wrote many more novels set in Malgudi, including The English Teacher (1945), The Financial Expert (1952), and The Guide (1958), which won him the Sahitya Akademi (India’s National Academy of Letters) Award, his country’s highest honor. NARAYAN was born on October 10, 1906, in Madras, South India, and educated there and at Maharaja’s College in Mysore. THE TIGER’S CLAW ISWARAN SUCH PERFECTION FATHER’S HELP THE SNAKE-SONG ENGINE TROUBLE FORTY-FIVE A MONTH OUT OF BUSINESS ATTILA THE AXE FROM LAWLEY ROAD LAWLEY ROAD TRAIL OF THE GREEN BLAZER THE MARTYR’S CORNER WIFE’S HOLIDAY A SHADOW A WILLING SLAVE LEELA’S FRIEND MOTHER AND SON NEW STORIES NAGA SELVI SECOND OPINION CAT WITHIN THE EDGE GOD AND THE COBBLER Table of Contents Title Page Copyright Page Introduction FROM AN ASTROLOGER’S DAY AN ASTROLOGER’S DAY THE MISSING MAIL THE DOCTOR’S WORD GATEMAN’S GIFT THE BLIND DOG FELLOW-FEELING ![]()
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