SOURCE: "Comedies of Suffering," in New York Times Book Review, September 11, 1994, p. 40.
Tharoor is the author of The Great Indian Novel and Show Business. In the following review, he praises the stories in Narayan's The Grandmother's Tale as "interesting and often pleasurable," but complains of the banality of the author's prose.
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