A Tiger for Malgudi
  • Published:
    Aug-1984
  • Formats:
    Print / eBook
  • Main Genre:
    General Fiction
  • Pages:
    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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    • First Edition
    • Aug-1984
    • Penguin
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 0140069119
    • ISBN13: 9780140069112
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    • Oct-1994
    • Penguin
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0140185453
    • ISBN13: 9780140185454
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    • Jul-2009
    • Penguin
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0143105809
    • ISBN13: 9780143105800
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    • Jan-1983
    • William Heinemann (UK)
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0434496146
    • ISBN13: 9780434496143
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    • Aug-1983
    • Viking
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0670712604
    • ISBN13: 9780670712601
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    • Oct-1994
    • Penguin
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1440618992
    • ISBN13: 9781440618994
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    • Oct-1994
    • Penguin Classics
    • eBook (Kindle)



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