| ID | 004696 |
| Call Number | FIC/NAR |
| Title Proper | Grandmother's tale |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Narayan, R.K. |
| Publication | Mysore, Indian Thought Publications, 2007. |
| Description | 98p Green Spine |
| Note | As told by the narrator's grandmother, it recounts the adventures of her mother, married at ten and abandoned soon after, who spends the next twenty years tracking her runaway husband across the subcontinent to extract him from the hands of his new wife and life. Her immense courage and implacable will are the stuff of legend - but once her mission is completed, her independence vanishes. Other characters that leap from these pages include a storyteller whose magical source of tales dries up; a naive and love-stricken husband who, his astrologers say, must sleep with a prostitute in order to save his dying wife; a pampered child who discovers that his beloved uncle may be an imposter or even a murderer. |
| Standard Number | 8185986150 |
| Price. Qualification | Rs.85(Pb) |
| Classification Number | FIC |
| Key Words | IGCSE ; India - Social life and customs - Fiction |