Authors: R. K. Narayan, Pankaj Mishra
ISBN-13: 9780143039679, ISBN-10: 0143039679
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Date Published: August 2006
Edition: (Non-applicable)
R. K. Narayan (1906-2001), born and educated in India, was the author of fourteen novels, numerous short stories and essays, a memoir, and three retold myths. His work, championed by Graham Greene, who became a close friend, was often compared to that of Dickens, Chekhov, Faulkner, and Flannery O'Connor, among others. October 10, 2006, is the centennial of Narayan's birth.
For centuries, Indians have held Rama to be the perfect man: unfailingly noble, utterly poised, fearless and strong, wise, compassionate and free from anger, a just ruler and an implacable foe of all wrongdoers. Countless others worship Rama as an avatar, a human incarnation of Lord Vishnu born to vanquish the forces of evil and establish a Kingdom of perfect justice and harmony upon the earth.