My Days - A Memoir

Like his fiction, Narayan's memoirs are acutely perceptive of the human condition. Foreword by John Updike.

About the author

R K Narayan (1906-2001) is the author of more than 15 novels. He is widely recognized as one of India’s most eminent novelists.

Summary

My Days is the only memoir from R. K. Narayan, one of the twentieth century’s most important writers in the English language.
In the wryly funny style that has made him famous, R. K. Narayan shares his life story, beginning in his grandmother’s garden in Madras with a ferocious pet peacock. As a young boy with no interest in school he trains grasshoppers and scouts and then, against the advice of all, especially his commanding headmaster father, the dreaming Narayan begins to write fiction. When one of his pieces is accepted by Punch magazine, what he describes as his ‘first prestige publication’, his life becomes gradually filled with bumbling British diplomats, strange movie moguls, evasive Indian officials and ‘the blind urge’ to fall in love.
Like his fiction, R. K. Narayan’s memoirs are acutely perceptive of the human condition, often brilliantly funny and always forgiving.

Foreword

With a foreword by John Updike

Product details

• Authors: R K Narayan, R K Narayan, Rasipuram Krishnaswamy Narayan
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.06.2001
• EAN: 9780330484435
• ISBN: 978-0-330-48443-5
• No. of pages: 180
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 197 mm x 10 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, Autobiography: literary, Autobiography: writers