The Vendor of Sweets by R.K. Narayan (1991, Paperback, Reprint) 
The Vendor of Sweets by R.K. Narayan (1991, Paperback, Reprint)
Author: R.K. Narayan
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Publication Date: 1991-09-01
Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 014018550X
ISBN-13: 9780140185508
Product ID: EPID2025686
Description: Jagan, a widower and quiet resident of Malgudi, is confronted with a dilemma between his love for his wastrel son and his firm commitment to the Bhagavad Gita and his Gandhian principles. When his son brings his half-American wife for a ...
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Synopsis
Jagan, a widower and quiet resident of Malgudi, is confronted with a dilemma between his love for his wastrel son and his firm commitment to the Bhagavad Gita and his Gandhian principles. When his son brings his half-American wife for a visit, Jagan and his son each discover new dimensions to their personalities.

Details
Publication Date:1991-09-01
Series:Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
Edition Description:Reprint

Size
Height:7.8 in
Width:5.0 in
Thickness:0.2 in
Weight:4.0 oz

Industry Reviews
"[This] is a beautifully written and entirely successful short novel by R.K. Narayan, who, as usual, makes a flank attack on the major emotions by writing light comedy....[The book] would all be rather run-of-the-mill stuff about the gulf dividing the generations, however, were it not that Narayan is a considerable artist. This allows him to make the father's love for his son as much of a reality as the son's utter worthlessness and lack of feeling...The novel as a whole is as fine as anything that Narayan has ever written, and it approaches perfection as a study of the failure of a heart under the burden of an unrequited love."
Anthony West (10/14/1967)

"Narayan knows [India] as Faulkner knew Mississippi. Both author's characters are universal--victims of an unending conflict between individuality and the demands of tradition--and the insights of both authors apply to far more territory than the grubby communities that they have made more real than many that can be mapped."

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