Painter of Signs

Summary: "Without dense insistence, without trading on the exotic or doggedly making anthropological points Narayan observes a deeply traditional society gradually becoming aware of change, of the flux of modern Western notions. It is a world as richly human and volatile as that of Dickens, but never caricatured; and--unlike E. M. Forster's India--it is seen from the inside, though by a writer whose ironical detachment has n...o coldness." [read more]