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His greatest passion is the M CC - the Malgudi Cricket Club - which he founds together with his friends: his greatest day is when the examinations are over and school breaks up - a time for revelry and cheerful ritousness. But the innocent and impulsive Swami lands in trouble when he is carried away by the more serious unrest of India in 1930. Somehow he gets himself expelled from two schools in succession, and when things have gone quite out of hand he is forced to run away from home ...This is far more than a simple narrative of Swami's adventures - charming and entertaining as they are. By the delicate sympathetically observed, the author establishes for us the child's world as the child himself sees it: and beyond, the adult community he will one day belong to - in Swami's case, the town of Malgudi, which provides the setting of almost all Narayan's later novels. About The Author R. K. Narayan was born in Madras in 1906 and educated there and at Maharaja College of Mysore. His first novel Swami and Friends (1935) was set in the enchanting fictional territory of Malgudi. Narayan’s other novels are The Bachelor of Arts , The Dark Room, The English Teacher , Mr Sampath, The Financial Expert, Waiting for the Mahatma, the Sahitya Akademi award-winning The Guide, The Man-eater of Malgudi, The Vendor of Sweets, The Painter of Signs, A Tiger for Malgudi, Talkative Man and The World of Nagaraj. Besides six collections of short stories, Narayan published two travel books, five collections of essays, translations of Indian epics and myths, and a memoir, My Days, A Town Called Malgudi, The World of Malgudi, The Magic of Malgudi and Memories of Malgudi, collections of Narayan’s fiction, and Malgudi Landscapes, a selection of his best writings, are available in Penguin Books. The Writerly Life, a volume of his selected non-fiction, is available in Viking.