SOURCE: "Comedies of Suffering," in The New York Times Book Review, September 11, 1994, pp. 40-1.
In this review of The Grandmother's Tale, Tharoor claims that the simple and straightforward style that gives Narayan's stories their charm also weakens the overall effect due to inadequacies of language.
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