My Days: A Memoir - Softcover

Narayan, R K

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1447219260 ISBN 13: 9781447219262

Verlag: Picador, 2012

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My Days is the only memoir from R.K. Narayan, one of the twentieth century's most important writers in the English language. This edition includes a foreword by John Updike. In the wryly funny style that has made him famous, R.K. Narayan shares his life story, beginning in his grandmother's garden in Madras with a ferocious pet peacock. As a young boy with no interest in school he trains grasshoppers and scouts and then, against the advice of all, especially his commanding headmaster father, the dreaming Narayan begins to write fiction. When one of his pieces is accepted by Punch magazine, what he describes as his 'first prestige publication', his life becomes gradually filled with bumbling British diplomats, strange movie moguls, evasive Indian officials and 'the blind urge' to fall in love. Like his fiction R.K. Narayan's memoirs are acutely perceptive of the human condition, often brilliantly funny and always forgiving.

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R K Narayan (1906-2001) is the author of more than 15 novels. He is widely recognized as one of India’s most eminent novelists.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Picador
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1447219260
• ISBN 13: 9781447219262
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 193
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