The Guide
A Religion, Asian Literature, India book. But you are not my wife. You are a woman who will...
The best of R.K. Narayan's enchanting novels"-The New Yorker Raju, a corrupt tourist guide, together with his lover, the dancer Rosie, leads a prosperous life before he is thrown into prison. After release he rests on the steps of an abandoned temple when a peasant passing by mistakes him for a holy man. Slowly, almost reluctantly, he begins to play the part, acting as a spiritual guide to the village community. Raju's holiness is put to the test when a drought strikes the village, and he is asked to fast...
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- ISBN: 9780143414988 / 143414984
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One often hears of suicide pacts. It seems to me a wonderful solution, like going on a long holiday. We could sit and talk one night perhaps, and sip our glasses of milk, and maybe we should wake up in a trouble-free world. Id propose it this very minute if I were sure you would keep the pact, but I fear that I may go ahead and you may change your mind at the last second. And have the responsibility of disposing of your body? I said, which was the worst thing I could have said. R.K. Narayan, The Guide // It seems to me that we generally do not have a correct measure of our own wisdom. R.K. Narayan, The Guide // But it was like hiding a corpse. Ive come to the conclusion that nothing in this world can be hidden or suppressed. All such attempts are like holding an umbrella to conceal the sun. R.K. Narayan, The Guide //
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06l36xyDescription: Raju's first stop after his release from prison is the barber's shop. Then he decides to take refuge in an abandoned temple. Raju used to be India's most corrupt tourist guide - but now a peasant mistakes him for a holy man. Gradually, he begins to play the part. It is written on... it has truly been described as a 'pensive comedy' - this is the story of Raju, an ordinary middle class man in South India, who vicariously rose to the height of fame, had a plunging fall, then again rose up like the phoenix to become a swamiji, a demi-god. More than Raju, I sympathize with Rosy, the dreamy eyed girl, whose only passion... This rural-oriented novel set in his fictional town of Malgudi in India would, I think, would nearly equally delight his readers who have read his "Swami and Friends" (1935), "The Bachelor of Arts" (1937) or "The English Teacher" (1945) and they may keep wondering why the protagonist, Raju, has chosen such a way of life after his release...
