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  • Published: 24 June 1993
  • ISBN: 9780140185485
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 176
  • RRP: $27.99

The Man-eater of Malgudi



This is the story of Nataraj, who earns his living as a printer in the little world of Malgudi, an imaginary town in South India. Nataraj and his close friends, a poet and a journalist, find their congenia l days disturbed when Vasu, a powerful taxidermist, moves in with his stuffed hyenas and pythons, and brings his dancing-women up the printer's private stairs. When Vasu, in search of larger game, threatens the life of a temple elephant that Natara j has befriended, complications ensue that are both laughable and tragic.

  • Published: 24 June 1993
  • ISBN: 9780140185485
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 176
  • RRP: $27.99

About the author

R K Narayan

R K Narayan's writing spans the greatest period of change in modern Indian history, from the days of the Raj - Swami and Friends (1935), The Bachelor of Arts (1937) and The English Teacher (1945) - to recent years of political unrest - The Painter of Signs (1976), A Tiger for Malgudi (1983), and Talkative Man (1987). He has published numerous collections of short stories, including Malgudi Days (1982), and Under the Banyan Tree (1985), and several works of non-fiction.

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