# The Vendor of Sweets

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- Authors: [R K Narayan](https://www.bookquiver.com/rk-narayan)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 1993-09-30

## Description

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 . . .

## Editions

### The Vendor of Sweets

- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4018-550-8
- Pages: 144
- Published: 1993-09-30
- Language: en_GB