Mr. Sampath-The Printer of Malgudi, The Financial Expert, Waiting for the Mahatma: Introduction by Alexander McCall Smith (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series) - Hardcover

"The novelist I most admire in the English language." -Graham Greene

"Few writers since Dickens can match the effect of colorful teeming that Narayan's fictional city of Malgudi conveys." -John Updike

"The hardest of all things for a novelist to communicate is the extraordinary ordinariness of most human happiness...Jane Austen, Soseki, Chekhov: a few bring it off. Narayan is one of them." -The Spectator

"The experience of reading one of his novels is...comparable to one's first reaction to the great Russian novels: the fresh realization of the common humanity of all peoples, underlain by a simultaneous sense of strangeness-like one's own reflection seen in green twilight." -New York Herald Tribune Book Review

"Narayan is a writer of Gogol's stature, with the same gift for creating a provincial atmosphere in a time of change...One is convincingly involved in this alien world without ever being aware of the technical devices
Narayan so brilliantly employs." -The New Yorker

Honoring the centennial of the birth of the forefather of modern Indian fiction, a second omnibus edition contains a trio of novels, set in the fictional town of Malgudi and written after India achieved independence, and features Mr. Sampath--The Printer of Malgudi, The Financial Expert, and Waiting for the Mahatma, in which a drifter's encounter with a beautiful young woman inspires him to follow Gandhi.