The English Teacher

THE ENGLISH TEACHER
While Krishna teaches at the Albert Mission College, his wife and daughter live some distance away with his parents-in-law. But a move to a small, rented house, soon permits the couple to enjoy a life of marital bliss. Yet, paradise is short-lived.
Never has the magical storyteller of imaginary Malgudi woven tragedy and humour so deftly together.
An idyll as delicious as anything I have met in modern literature for a long time. The atmosphere and texture of happiness, and above all, its elusiveness, have seldom been so perfectly transcribed.
Elizabeth Brown
The hardest of all things for a novelist to communicate is the extra-ordinary ordinariness of human happiness. Jane Austen, Soseki, Chekov: a few bring it off. Narayan is one of them.
Spectator