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9780140185492
"Without dense insistence, without trading on the exotic or doggedly making anthropological points Narayan observes a deeply traditional society gradually becoming aware of change, of the flux of modern Western notions. It is a world as richly human and volatile as that of Dickens, but never caricatured; and--unlike E. M. Forster's India--it is seen from the inside, though by a writer whose ironical detachment has no coldness.Narayan, R. K. is the author of 'Painter of Signs', published 1993 under ISBN 9780140185492 and ISBN 0140185496.
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