TY - BOOK AU - Narayan, R. K. TI - The English teacher SN - 9788185986036 U1 - 823 PY - 2020/// CY - Madras PB - Indian Thought Publication KW - India KW - Bereavement KW - English teachers KW - Life change events N2 - R. K. Narayan (1906—2001) witnessed nearly a century of change in his native India and captured it in fiction of uncommon warmth and vibrancy. The title character in The English Teacher, Narayan’s most autobiographical novel, searches for meaning when the death of his young wife deprives him of his greatest source of happiness. This pioneering novel, luminous in its detail and refreshingly free of artifice, is a gift to twentieth-century literature ER -