The Independent - London, May 14th, 2001
R. K. NARAYAN was India's greatest English-language novelist. To Graham Greene, Narayan's friend for more than half a century and his literary godfather, he was "the novelist I most admire in the English language since the death of Evelyn Waugh. Without him I could never have known what it is like to be Indian."
It was Narayan's unique achievement, in a series of loosely connected novels and short stories (not to speak of many wonderfully funny essays), to make small-town India as vivid to western readers as their own backyard, while writing in a language not that of his real-life characters....
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