SOURCE: "The Nearness of Two Worlds," in Commonweal, Vol. LIX, No. 3, October 23, 1953, pp. 70-71.
In the following review, Fremantle calls Narayan's Grateful to Life and Death "a tour de force, as perfect as it is pure."
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