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The Vendor of Sweets
R.K. Narayan

The Vendor of Sweets

Penguin Books Ltd (Sep 30, 1993)
9780140185508
| Paperback
144 pages | 129 x 198 mm | English

Subject

  • Fiction / General
  • Fiction / Literary
  • Fiction / Romance / General
  • Identity (Psychology)
  • Malgudi (India : Imaginary Place)

Plot

While the colourful sweetmeats are frying in the kitchen, Jagan immerses himself in his copy of the Bhagavad Gita. A widower of firm Gandhian principles, Jagan nonetheless harbours a warm and embarrassed affection for his wastrel son Mali. Yet even Jagan's patience begins to fray when Mali descends on the sleepy city of Malgudi full of modern notions, with a new half-American wife and a grand plan for selling novel-writing machines. From different generations and different cultures, father and son are forced to confront each other, and are taken by surprise . . .