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Swami and Friends is a 1935 novel by R. K. Narayan, marking his debut as an English-language novelist from India. It is the first book in a trilogy set in the fictional town of Malgudi during British India.
Malgudi is located on the banks of the river Sarayu.In Swami and Friends, Swami, Mani and Rajam spend most of their evenings playing or chatting by the river.In The Guide, holy-man Raju fasts on the banks of the dry river Sarayu, praying for the rains to come.
A story about Swami, a character from his first novel "Swami and Friends". Swami oversleeps on Monday and convinces his mother to let him stay home from school. His father insists he still go to school with a "headache," so Swami lies and says his teacher Samuel beats children severely for lateness or any small offense.
The series is an adaptation of several collections of short stories and novels by R. K. Narayan, depicting life in the fictional South Indian town of Malgudi.It draws from works such as Malgudi Days, A Horse and Two Goats and Other Stories, An Astrologer's Day and Other Short Stories, Swami and Friends, and The Vendor of Sweets, offering a portrayal of rural and small-town India through its ...
It is the second book of a trilogy that begins with Swami and Friends and ends with The English Teacher. [1] It is again set in Malgudi , the fictional town Narayan invented for his novels. Plot summary
The English Teacher is a 1945 novel written by R. K. Narayan.It is a part of a series of novels and collections of short stories set in "Malgudi". The English Teacher was preceded by Swami and Friends (1935), The Bachelor of Arts (1937) and Malgudi Days, (1943) and followed by Mr. Sampath – The Printer of Malgudi.
Jagan: The protagonist. A follower of Gandhi in his youth, he works as a sweetmeat vendor by profession. The novel portrays him as a typical Homo Narayans; Jagan is a timid man, not notably wealthy or poverty-stricken, and yearns to spend life with the least troubles.
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.