THE ENGLISH TEACHER – R. K. Narayan

While Krishna teaches at the Albert Mission College, his wife and daughter live some distance away with his parents-in-law. But a move to a small, rented house, soon permits the couple to enjoy a life of marital bliss. Yet, paradise is short-lived….

Never has the magical storyteller of imaginary Malgudi woven tragedy and humour so deftly together.

‘An idyll as delicious as anything I have met in modern literature for a long time. The atmosphere and texture of happiness, and above all, its elusiveness, have seldom been so perfectly transcribed.

Elizabeth Brown

The hardest of all things for a novelist to communicate is the extra-ordinary ordinariness of human happiness. Jane Austen, Soseki, Chekov: a few bring it off. Narayan is one of them.”

Spectator

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