- Series: Penguin Modern Classics
- Imprint: Penguin Classics
- ISBN: 9780140185508
- Length: 144 pages
- Dimensions: 198mm x 1mm x 129mm
- Weight: 145g
- Price: £12.99
The Vendor of Sweets
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While the colourful sweetmeats are frying in the kitchen, Jagan immerses himself in his copy of the Bhagavad Gita. A widower of firm Gandhian principles, Jagan nonetheless harbours a warm and embarrassed affection for his wastrel son Mali. Yet even Jagan's patience begins to fray when Mali descends on the sleepy city of Malgudi full of modern notions, with a new half-American wife and a grand plan for selling novel-writing machines. From different generations and different cultures, father and son are forced to confront each other, and are taken by surprise . . .