A Tiger for Malgudi
β Scribed by R. K. Narayan
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group;Penguin Group US
- Year
- 1994
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 110 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
A venerable tiger, old and toothless now, looks back over his life from cubhood and early days roaming wild in the Indian jungle. Trapped into a miserable circus career as 'Raja the magnificent', he is then sold into films (co-starring with a beefy Tarzan in a leopard skin) until, finding the human world too brutish and bewildering, he makes a dramatic bid for freedom.
R.K. Narayan's story combines Hindu mysticism with ripe Malgudi comedy, viewing human absurdities through the eyes of a wild animal and revealing how, quite unexpectedly, Raja finds sweet companionship and peace.
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