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The Guide is a 1958 novel written in English by the Indian author R. K. Narayan. Like most of his works, the events of this novel take place in Malgudi, a fictional town in South India. The novel describes the transformation of the protagonist, Raju, from a tour guide to a spiritual guide and then one of the greatest holy men of India.
Dev Anand was approached by American director Tad Danielewski and writer Pearl Buck for an American film based on the 1958 novel The Guide by R. K. Narayan. Anand declined at first, but agreed to collaborate with Danielewski when he met him again at the 1962 Berlin Film Festival. Anand read the novel and contacted Buck, who invited him to the ...
Malgudi (/ m ɑː l ɡ ʊ d ɪ /) is a fictional town located in Agumbe situated in the Shivamogga district of the Indian state of Karnataka in the novels and short stories of R. K. Narayan. It forms the setting for most of Narayan's works.
R. K. Narayan was born in a Tamil Hindu family [4] on 10 October 1906 in Madras (now Chennai, Tamil Nadu), British India. [5] He was one of eight children; six sons and two daughters. Narayan was second among the sons; his younger brother Ramachandran later became an editor at Gemini Studios , and the youngest brother Laxman became a cartoonist.
Reluctant Guru is a book by R. K. Narayan published in 1974 by Orient Paperbacks. [1] The book consists entirely of discursive essays, some of which were his weekly contributions to The Hindu. [2]
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Talkative Man is a novel by R. K. Narayan first published in 1986 by Heinemann. [1] Like his earlier novels, this one is also set in the fictional town of Malgudi. [2] The novel is a bit short by Narayan's standards but provides the same level of enjoyment one experiences with his other writings.
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