The Guide

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."-The New York Times Book Review 'Narayan is such a natural writer, so true to his experience and emotions"-V.S. Naipaul