The unprecedented recognition of R.K. Narayan requires a balanced approach to his fiction. In her stimulating study, Dr. Manju Roy has analysed all his novels showing how he has created magical fiction out of the socio-cultural ethos of a small Indian town. She shows how the fictitious town of Malgudi looks authentic, and how the people in their ordinariness of life become vibrant as they respond to the tradition to which they are bound, and, at the same time, ...
