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      A Tiger for Malgudi

      by R.K. Narayan
      Published
      Aug 1984
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      General Fiction General Fiction
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      160
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      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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      General Fiction Speculative Fiction

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      Fantasy

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      First Edition Aug 1984 Penguin ISBN 0140069119
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      Jan 1983 William Heinemann (UK) ISBN 0434496146
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