Grandmother's Tale And Selected Stories\"It is not too much to compare Mr. Narayan to Chekhov.\" The New York Times There is no better introduction to R. K. Narayan than this remarkable collection of stories celebrating work that spans five decades. Characters include a storyteller whose magical source of tales dries up, a love stricken husband who is told by astrologers he must sleep with a prostitute to save his dying wife, a pampered child who discovers that his beloved uncle may be an

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