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Relationship to Other Books

Works of interest concerning Narayan include: "The Politics of R.K. Narayan," in Imagining India (1989) by Richard Cronin; "R.K. Narayan: The View from the Window," in Babu Fictions: Alienation in Contemporary Indian English Novels (2001) by Tabish Khair; "The Great Narayan," in the New York Review of Books (2001) by Pankaj Mishra; R.K. Narayan: A Critical Appreciation (1982) by William Walsh.

For works concerning The Guide, please see: "Patterns of Story-Telling in R.K. Narayan's The Guide," Journal of Commonwealth Literature (1991); "Hindu Mythology in R.K. Narayan's The Guide," Journal of Commonwealth Literature (1999).

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