The Financial Expert (Phoenix Fiction S.) - Softcover

Narayan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0226568415 ISBN 13: 9780226568416

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1981

Synopsis

In The Financial Expert, R. K. Narayan once again transports readers to the southern Indian town of Malgudi. This story centers around the life and pursuits of Margayya, a man of many hopes but few resources, who spends his time under the banyan tree offering expert financial advice to those willing to pay for his knowledge. Margayya's rags-to-riches story brings forth the rich imagery of Indian life with the absorbing details and vivid storytelling that are Narayan's trademarks. "The novels of R. K. Narayan are the best I have read in any language for a long time."--Amit Roy, Daily Telegraph "The experience of reading one of his novels is ...comparable to one's first reaction to the great Russian novels: the fresh realization of the common humanity of all peoples."--Margaret Parton, New York Herald Tribune Book Review "The hardest of all things for a novelist to communicate is the extraordinary ordinariness of most human happiness...Jane Austen, Soseki, Chekhov: a few bring it off. Narayan is one of them."--Francis King, Spectator

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Timeless
'R K Narayan has few equals among modern novelists' Times Literary Supplement

‘One of the most charming masters of twentieth-century fiction’ Allan Masie, Scotsman

In the shade of a banyan tree sits Margayva, self-styled advisor on the complex minor transactions which are an integral part of Indian life. Who else would you consult if you wanted a loan from the local Co-operative Bank?

But a scrape with officialdom in the form of an unplanned interview with the Bank’s Secretary – and a mishap which finds his spoilt son Balu throwing his accounts book down a drain – temporarily cuts short a lucrative career...

‘Original, charming, lively, engaging and subtle’ Times of India

‘The novelist I admire most in the English language’ Graham Greene

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Keynote/Publisher's Comments'The novelist I admire most in the English language' Graham Greene

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 1981
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0226568415
• ISBN 13: 9780226568416
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 224